Re: Ubuntu Patches
Scripsit Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 06:43:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
>> > 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*?
> No, that is not what I am saying.
Then I'm having trouble parsing what you are saying, too. Like
Thomas, the only sense I can make of your description is that
you are are describing an algorithm that goes roughly like
0 Bug is discovered
1 Patch is produced
2 IF bug is known in the Debian BTS
3 THEN mail patch to the Debian maintainer/BTS
4 ELSE publish the patch somewere, which will let the Debian
maintainer "pull" it iff he chances to find out that
somebody downstream from him has published a patch
somewhere.
Why is line 4 not "ELSE file a new bug report with the patch in the
Debian BTS"?
> If you have an honest question, I am happy to answer,
This is an honest question.
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