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Bug#523985: marked as done (developers-reference: add a paragraph about dealing with hostile upstreams)

Your message dated Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:02:12 +0000
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and subject line Bug#523985: fixed in developers-reference 3.4.2
has caused the Debian Bug report #523985,
regarding developers-reference: add a paragraph about dealing with hostile upstreams
to be marked as done.

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Package: developers-reference
Severity: wishlist

Please add the attached patch against SVN about dealing with hostile
upstreams. See the thread on debian-private I posted the wording to
recently for the motivation for this.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Index: developer-duties.dbk
===================================================================
--- developer-duties.dbk	(revision 6671)
+++ developer-duties.dbk	(working copy)
@@ -152,6 +152,12 @@
 upstream version.  Whatever changes you need, always try not to fork from the
 upstream sources.
 </para>
+<para>
+If you find that the upstream developers are or become hostile towards Debian
+and or the free software community you may want to re-consider the need to
+include the upstream software in Debian. Sometimes the social cost to the
+Debian community is not worth the benefits the software may bring.
+</para>
 </section>
 
 <section id="rc-bugs">

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Source: developers-reference
Source-Version: 3.4.2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
developers-reference, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

developers-reference-fr_3.4.2_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/developers-reference/developers-reference-fr_3.4.2_all.deb
developers-reference_3.4.2.dsc
  to pool/main/d/developers-reference/developers-reference_3.4.2.dsc
developers-reference_3.4.2.tar.gz
  to pool/main/d/developers-reference/developers-reference_3.4.2.tar.gz
developers-reference_3.4.2_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/developers-reference/developers-reference_3.4.2_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 523985@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> (supplier of updated developers-reference package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:28:04 +0200
Source: developers-reference
Binary: developers-reference developers-reference-fr
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.4.2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Documentation Project <debian-doc@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>
Description: 
 developers-reference - guidelines and information for Debian developers
 developers-reference-fr - guidelines and information for Debian developers, in French
Closes: 516375 516436 523985 525668 526410 527008 532945 534688 538245
Changes: 
 developers-reference (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Applied patch from Justin B Rye that improves the discussion on writing
     package descriptions. Closes: #516436.
   * Lenny has been released, update the list of codenames. Closes: #527008.
   * Applied patch from Paul Wise that adds a paragraph about hostile
     upstreams. Closes: #523985.
   * Applied patch from Charles Plessy about providing information to the
     ftpmasters. Closes: #526410.
   * In the section about patch systems, mention quilt (wasn not
     mentionned before) and describe it as the recommended patch system.
     also mention dpatch and cdbs' patch system. drop dbs. Closes: #525668.
   * Added a note in the wanna-build section to mention
     http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt. Closes: #516375.
   * Clarified NMU versioning to reflect existing practices. Closes: #532945.
   * s/README.Debian-source/README.source/ in the section
     about repackaged upstream tarballs.
   * Mention the Gandi.net hosting discount in section 4.13.
     Applied patch from Tim Retout. Closes: #538245.
   * Reduce length of title of L10N section so that it is no longer split.
     Applied patch from Justin B Rye. Closes: #534688.
   * Bumped debhelper compat level to 5 (4 was deprecated)
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No changes needed.
   * Added pointer to debian-project@ post about the wanna-build team.
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