On 2014-06-03 13:36, Svante Signell wrote:
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 13:18 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:> And it might be so that the Debian > Maintainer choose to approve the patch before upstream, Or it can be the other way round, where maintainers do want issues/patches filed/fixed upstream first before introducing potentially incompatible changes in the packages. It is also _much_ easier, in case you want to really have it fixed in Debian without waiting for a new upstream release, to just askfor the backport of a patch already committed upstream, as it is thenalready reviewed and approved by upstream.If you had done that for audiofile, it had saved me time for creating myversion of the patch for that package.
As I wrote in my initial reply to this thread: | Svante: it would be *really* helpful if you could check upstream | before reporting upstream bugs to Debian. It isn't that difficult, | you don't need special skills to search into bug/issue trackers or | in VCSes. This will avoid duplicating work already done by someone | else. If you would have checked yourself, you would have spent 5 minutes only. So please don't complain about the time you spend in rewriting from scratch patches someone else *already* did... which you just don't bother to look up.
Are you submitting a Debian bug report? Otherwise I'll do it.
I will do it, please don't. -- Pino Toscano