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



Ben Finney wrote:
> "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).
> 
Have non-Debian users access to this files? Have Debian users access to
these files when packages are not installed on system? And when changes
are not persistent (for example, important backported fix for stable
release)?

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF

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