Re: Bug #480536 Mailbomb
On Sunday 25 May 2008, Neil Williams wrote:
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> > > Why not if it contains couple of important bugfixes?
> >
> > Here I disagree with Neil. While DEHS will detect it, having upstream
> > visiting Debian BTS and emphasizing on new features/bugfixes is a good
> > thing!
>
> Actually, I think we agree - the bug report didn't emphasise any new
> features or detail any bug fixes so there was no benefit over the DEHS
> email IMHO. When a "new upstream release" bug includes details of Debian
> bugs (possibly) closed by the new version or important bugs discovered
> and fixed upstream that didn't appear as Debian bugs, that I would
> consider to be a good thing.
True. I just missed to inspect the buglog.
> > Having upstream who helps improving Debian is also very cool, so if you
> > find it useful, you can co-maintain the package together with an official
> > DD.
>
> True - but I do know of instances where upstream have become more of a
> nag than a help.
This could be possible, but curable sometimes. If the upstream is sensible
enough it shouldn't be a great effort to teach them towards Debian
habits/culture. Perhaps I'm extremely lucky having to deal high quality
upstreams (a dutch CS professor and hackers from large a telecommunication
company, to name a few), but they are of a great help as co-maintainers wrt
packaging not so trivial libraries.
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