> The new maintainers' packages that you as an application manager look at are > most often at their first revision, so it's quite likely that these patches > are in the Debian diff because the upstream maintainers probably haven't had > enough time to get, examine and include the patch and release a new version. That might happen. Still, I find it cleaner to work around it from debian/rules in the Debian package _and_ sand a proper fix upstream, so both parties benefit.
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