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Re: Bug#147303: ITP: winex -- A DESCRIPTION



On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:26:01PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> So, my question is, is there any reason why all the debian/ dirs are not
> sent upstream for inclusion in CVS? As a maintainer, I would gratefully
> accept any patch for doing so to the modules I maintain.

Most(?) developers don't like this approach, because it's not easy to
get stuff in sync when doing a release, and if there's no debian patch
this means upstream will have to release a new version even if only a
debian related issue is addressed.

Michael

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