also sprach Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2008.05.17.2238 +0100]: > If you grab a patch from upstream that you know will be in a future > upstream release, the divergence is temporary. You can choose not to > file a bug report in our BTS about it, knowing that it will clear up. ... and suddenly the whole thing becomes useless because the divergence isn't recorded in this instance. If a change is not in 0.2 but in 0.3, but 0.2-2 cherry-picked it, well, it's a divergence. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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