On 19/06/09 at 11:14 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 19 juin 2009 à 11:03 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > > I did not contact them yet. I expect that they will follow the outcome of > > > this DEP otherwise they would have to patch lintian to support the > > > differing field and it seems counter-productive. > > > > That sounds like a pretty bad way to force them to make changes to an > > existing policy. > > It is just normal that such things happen given how the development > process of Ubuntu works. > > When upstream implements something for which I have already a patch but > in a different way, I’m not going to complain to them if I have not > bothered earlier to forward my patch and discuss it with them so that it > is integrated. The same reasoning applies here. I agree that it was a bad thing that Ubuntu developers developed that policy without discussing it with Debian, or even mentionning it to Debian. That's not a reason for us to behave equally badly. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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