Am Dienstag, 2. Februar 2010 schrieb Jonathan Nieder: > Hi Thomas, > > A general thought I was reminded of: > > Thomas Müller wrote: > > We should not go too far away from the upstream description by inventing > > new attributes. > > I have started noticing this idea (such-and-such is a bad idea > because we should not diverge from upstream or have too many patches) > expressed by a wide variety of people, and I have to admit it baffles > me. Isn’t a package maintainer’s job to work together with upstream > to improve the software? > > Jonathan > You are right: we maintainers shall support upstream .. I'll discuss this with upstream for sure. In case upstream will / can / want to change the description we will sync the package descriptions. But this will take time and I want a good description based on what we have now. Thanks a lot for your input - it will not be lost. Tom -- Thomas Müller (Thomas Mueller) E-Mail: thomas.mueller@tmit.eu Packages: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=thomas.mueller@tmit.eu Powered by Debian
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