Re: Define "upstream"?

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

On 04/06/2005, at 5:37 PM, Pierre Machard wrote:

> [...]
>
> > > So, in grsecurity2 pacakge, upstream is www.grsecurity.net.
> > > And you can check it in copyright file as "Upstream Author(s):".
> >
> > So it almost means 'the original developers'.
>
> The expression "upstream developers" is Debian specific but suit  
> perfectly
> with what it means. Any packages are original.
>
>
> From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]:
>
>   upstream
>    adj.
<snip definition>
>
Merci beacoup, Pierre, cela l'expliquez partfaitement. (My equally  
terrible French. ;) )

Thanks a lot, Pierre, that explains it perfectly.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)

Clytie Siddall--Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia

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