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Re: Ubuntu Patches



Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:28:36AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 
> > One suggestion: if any Ubuntu patches were CC'd to the Debian
> > maintainer, or filed in the BTS, they would get applied quicker.  I've
> > now put your gimp-print changes back into my packages, but I would
> > have been happy to do this last October when they were originally
> > created.  This should also lower your packaging overheads, since you
> > won't have to re-patch for every new Debian revision.
> 
> Many Debian maintainers would consider this unwelcome noise.  In cases where
> we can be certain that this is welcome (i.e., a bug is open in debbugs), the
> patch is pushed, otherwise it is published so that it can be pulled by the
> maintainer if desired.

Are you saying that Ubuntu fixes bugs, checks to see if the bug has
been reported in Debian, and if it hasn't, then *does nothing*?



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