On 20050517T230750+1000, Ben Finney wrote: > I'm surprised that people have consistently read "submit patches" as > somehow bypassing the maintainer, or telling him what to do. To whom > would I be submitting the patches, if not the maintainer? > > I'm curious what you all had in mind that I was going to be doing; > clearly something socially unacceptable. I don't see what that is > though. If I were to receive a bug report, say wishlist severity, containing a patch that rewrites one of my packages' debian/rules to use debhelper, I would be very upset: it would feel like an insult toward my style of packaging. The only three cases I see myself not becoming upset in are: 1) the submitter is taking over that package with my consent (though, why create a bug report in that case?) 2) the submitter had discussed it with me in advance and I had agreed to it 3) the bug report contains a convincing argument why the new rules file is a substantial improvement over my current one (matters of style don't count) - and even then, I would recommend discussing it with me in advance -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian
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