Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.1-1 (i386 source)
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Well the credit should definitely be directed at the submitter. The
>> blame however is squarely at the feet of the maintainer.
>
> This is not at all the case. A large percentage of patches that I apply to
> my packages are done more or less blindly. Specifically, the message
> translations.
This might be OK for translations. But for anything else, if something
goes wrong, then it's the maintainer's fault since he is the one who
decided to let the patch in.
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