Who to contact about pointless Ubuntu differences?
Does anyone know the right contact point to ask Ubuntu to stop making
pointless changes to a Debian package? See:
http://patches.ubuntu.com/x/xfonts-jmk/xfonts-jmk_3.0-16ubuntu1.patch
I mailed the person listed in the changelog entry here and pointed out
that there's no reason to patch a spec file for an Ubuntu or Debian
package and didn't get any reply, and then when I uploaded another new
version of the package, this pointless change was blindly merged again.
It doesn't really matter -- it's not hurting anything -- but it's vaguely
annoying to have the patch keep showing up on the PTS page when there's no
useful content (and it obscures any actually useful modifications made in
Ubuntu).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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