On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 11:57 +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Sunday 25 May 2008, Aanjhan R wrote: > > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote: > > > Debian has systems that alert the maintainer to new releases, so Ernesto > > > will have had a reminder already from DEHS. Not every upstream release > > > needs a "Package the new version" bug report. > > > > Why not if it contains couple of important bugfixes? > > Here I disagree with Neil. While DEHS will detect it, having upstream visiting > Debian BTS and emphasizing on new features/bugfixes is a good thing! Actually, I think we agree - the bug report didn't emphasise any new features or detail any bug fixes so there was no benefit over the DEHS email IMHO. When a "new upstream release" bug includes details of Debian bugs (possibly) closed by the new version or important bugs discovered and fixed upstream that didn't appear as Debian bugs, that I would consider to be a good thing. > Having upstream who helps improving Debian is also very cool, so if you find > it useful, you can co-maintain the package together with an official DD. True - but I do know of instances where upstream have become more of a nag than a help. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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