Re: Derivatives, MongoDB and freezes
On 22 April 2013 13:20, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 07:22:05PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>> I also posted on Debian Planet, how to find patches applied in Ubuntu
>> via Debian PTS together with categories of useful fixes that are
>> relevant to Jessie and may be already solved/patched in Ubuntu. [1]
>>
>> I perceived that blog post as a partial personal stab at me, by the
>> way. Which I found unjust.
>
> Rogério Brito wrote his post on the 19th¹, and you wrote your post on
> the 20th², so I fail to see how it could be a personal stab at you, or
> at least in relation to your post.
>
My post was in response to his.
I have been partially involved in mongodb work in Ubuntu.
> I couldn't figure out how to comment on your post, because I wanted to complain
> about "Not uploading patches because they don't apply to Debian yet, is silly
> as they will apply to Debian eventually", which I think is unfair. It seems
> to me you want Debian people to make Ubuntu's life easier, whilst Rogério
> wants Ubuntu people to make Debian's life easier. Not all Debian developers
> have the time ot care about derivatives, and I'm the reverse is also true.
>
yes, I agree. Both stances are equal and opposite. I guess my post was
more about promoting DDs to check PTS once in a while. And to promote
and advertise my position =)
Thank you for your feedback. I also got feedback that patches.u.c
generates full-diff instead of debdiff which can be rather large.
Regards,
Dmitrijs.
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