Re: A question about patches for upstream
Le Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:56:48PM +0200, Bas Wijnen a écrit :
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> I'm happy to see that there is consensus anyway that forwarding bugs upstream
> is the task of the maintainer.
Hi all,
being a package maintainer, I am always uncomfortable when I have the
impression that I am considered like a human patch-pushing machine that extends
the impact of mass-scale patch producers. Luckily it is not happening often,
but please let's take a point of view that is less patch-centric and more
human-centric.
When the first mass rebuilds with GCC and porting issues came to Debian, I was
very impressed. Years later it became a routine and I sometimes feel that I am
pressed by a machine. There is not much apparent coordination with the other
distributions (not our derivatives) that also conduce such large screens.
Especially for the GCC updates, it sometimes happens that if I do nothing,
Fedora will do the same screen, send patches Upstream and I will only have to
package a new upstream release as usual. Why don't we start to share the
workload ? It seems to be a race condition with a lot of duplicated work. Not
to mention when Upstream himself follows the evolution of the toolchain. Can't
we have a GCC foundation that takes care of this ? I will be happy to donate
regularly.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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