On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:27:59PM +0100, Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) wrote: > I have a few questions because I am still a little newbie at this :] for this is debian-mentor > First of all.. Is it OK for me to apply patches to the source > that improves the program? Or should all modifications to the > source go via the upstream author? In fact I patched the micq > source so that it reconnects to the server if the server closed > the connection, and this is a reported bug (#72108). Yes you are allowed to change the source (not the orig.tar.gz, but with the debian-diff-file) But send your patches to upstream. > Second.. I adopted the package... With libgd (also adopted) I just > apt-get source'd the package, altered the changelog and uploaded it > again. Is this the correct way to do this? - close bugs in wnpp - change the Maintainer value in debian/control Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux als typisch für linux benutzer gilt aber wohl immernoch eher was ala: "man blafurz | grep RTFM | cut -c /d 10-2837 | uahha" (Adam Kopacz)
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