Bug#749096: Updated version

[Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>]

Hi Martin,

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Martin Steghöfer <martin@steghoefer.eu> wrote:
> El 29/08/14 a les 23:33, Ghislain Vaillant ha escrit:
>
>> Well, you are supposed to target what's in there in unstable if you want
>> your package to be accepted in the archive. Afterwards, Ubuntu will
>> automatically pick it up for its current development version (14.10 or
>> 15.04) depending on how fast the upload to Debian goes. Regarding support
>> for 14.04, this could be done by requesting a backport from the Ubuntu
>> package of a newer release (14.10 or 15.04) and then adding your 14.04
>> specific patching to the backported package.
>
>
> OK, understood. So the bottom-line of your answer, if I understand you
> correctly (taken the fact that the little change in the patch is already too
> much): Helping downstream distributions happens via other channels, the
> Debian package is not supposed/allowed to include anything that is
> unnecessary for Debian unstable.

No, there is no rule saying that a package cannot include anything
that's unnecessary for sid and/or would benefit downstream
distributions. There's nothing that compels maintainers to do so
either; it's entirely up to the maintainer. Personally, for my own
packages I do my best to eliminate/minimize the diff in my packages
for stable backports and Ubuntu/downstream distros in general, even at
the cost of introducing extra complexity to that package. Again, it's
up to you as maintainer to decide whether you would like to deal with
this extra workload, or push it to downstream maintainers/backporters.

Regards,
Vincent