Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org): > > > So the best way to ensure that this bug remains fixed is to make sure this > > > patch gets applied upstream so that it's available when I merge from there. > > > Actualy, wrt #470096 and #446549, I treated them as quilt patches to > > better integrate with your build system (I can send the patches to the > > BTS). > > Right; I'm not adding /any/ patches to the Debian package right now that > aren't absolutely critical, because rebasing them already costs me too much > time and results in Debian having a suboptimal PAM package. So you /can/ > NMU these patches, but I'll just overwrite them with my next upload, sorry. > The right solution, at present, is to get the changes accepted upstream > first. Sure. To make it clear. I will *not* NMU pam, Steve. I have full confidence in the way you maintain packages (eh, we're maintaining samba together and are doing a fairly good job, aren't we) so even if, here, I think that it could be worth applying the upstream l10n patches, I entirely respect your judgement to *not* do it. You maintain pam and maintain it well (at least when considering the beast that PAM can be)....so bad interaction from me would be inappropriate. I'll just stick with a regular nagging about l10n, just like I'm doing with other maintainers..:-) > > Then in post-lenny work, I can offer to work with you on remerging > > l10n with upstream, including bringing the changes we made > > Debian-specific back to upstream's l10n if that's needed (the fix > > which adds a space after password prompts in Spanish is fairly > > important, I think). > > Well, this is precisely the problem: I don't have time to get the patches > already in the Debian package pushed upstream, which is why I'm not willing > to accept any new patches into the Debian package and want someone else to > push them upstream directly. OK. Let's discuss that at Debconf then (I'm still hoping that argentinian days are 30 hours or so if I consider the number of things I promised to do at Debconf...but we'll see). Another option would be to find another i18n person who would be motivated enough (for a long commitment) and volunteering to help on that PAM l10n improvement, including the synchronization with upstream (and following upstream development, etc.).
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