On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:39:23PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > it just seems like upstream would want to support users who are > transistioning from older versions of the software. i think a better > policy, rather than something debian specific, would be for debian > devels to work with upstream to provide something that can benefit > everyone. Hrm, you're not a developer evidently; the developer's reference basically already recommends this: ``A big part of your job as Debian maintainer will be to stay in contact with the upstream developers. [...] If you need to modify the upstream sources in order to build a policy compliant package, then you should propose a nice fix to the upstream developers which can be included there, so that you won't have to modify the sources of the next upstream version.'' Also, compare with the Gnome 2 stuff at the moment: Gnome upstream are *strongly* recommending we don't replace Gnome 1 by Gnome 2 even in unstable until we've written some config upgrade scripts -- while they think such things are necessary for mass use of Gnome 2, they also preferred to leave the authoring of them to the distros. Who writes the code doesn't really matter, as long as it gets written. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''
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