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Define "upstream"?



Hi everybody :)

I'm going down for the third time in a sea of troubles [1], uh, debconf files, but I've emailed this question in a bottle... :D

I keep running into the term "upstream" as a noun. I had defined it as "more recent software", but these two strings from debconf file gradm seems to imply more:

#. Type: text
#. Description
#: ../templates:3
msgid "gradm was deprecated by upstream"

#. Type: text
#. Description
#: ../templates:3
msgid ""
"Quoting upstream: (as of April 17, 2004) \"grsecurity 2.0 has been released " "for Linux 2.4.26 and 2.6.5. It is now the stable version of grsecurity. "
<further instructions snipped>

Is "upstream", in fact, someone who can be quoted? Is this an organism of some kind?

Thankyou for any light you can shed on this murky ocean in which I'm currently dog-paddling. <woof>

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese translation team)

Clytie Siddall--Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia

Ở thành phố Renmark, tại miền sông của Nam Úc

[1] Hamlet: I think he must have been a debconf translator.



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