Re: Centralized darcs
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:31:18PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
> > I think people that are NMUing packages rarely care about this.
>
> When NMU'ing a package, I'd really appreciate to know which changes have
> which purpose and which "specificity". In particular when trying to
> incorporate a fix provided by upstream - why the hell doesn't it apply
> cleanly? Did the Debian maintainer already try to address the problem
> differently,
We have changelogs for that. If a maintainer doesn't fill out changelogs
adequately, what are the chances that they're going to document their
patches any better?
- Matt
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