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Re: Proposal: user-visible list of divergences from upstream



"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com> writes:

> Many of Debian packages have a patches that fixes some important
> bugs which have not accepted by upstream for some reasons, some of
> them also contains improvements, Debian-specific or not.
[…]

> But how can users know about this changes in Debian packages?

By the existing README.Debian and NEWS.Debian conventions (for
persistent and version-sensitive changes, respectively).

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