Re: Submitting fixes to ptouch-driver
Hi Philip,
Le jeudi, 9 avril 2015, 21.07:13 Philip Pemberton a écrit :
> I've been working on a number of fixes to ptouch-driver, which are
> currently hosted in a Mercurial repository on Bitbucket:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/philpem/printer-driver-ptouch/commits
Great, thanks for that!
> I suspect I need to submit patches; is there a preferred format for
> these?
Debian and Ubuntu are not the upstream maintainers of ptouch-driver, and
although we're maintaining a small pile of patches (two, as of Debian
Jessie), we should put ourselves in the de-facto position of being the
new upstream maintainers: the suite in debian/patches is not a
substitute to proper upstream releases.
That said, there are two(-and-a-half) ways forward:
- either the actual upstream maintainers accept these patches and
release new versions, which we can then deploy through our
distributions;
- if that doesn't happen, then there are two possible alternatives:
- the upstream author is missing-in-action or unresponsive: in that
case, you (or anyone else interested) could probably take over name,
repositories, versions, etc.
- the upstream author refuses to integrate your patches (for whatever
reason), in which case you can also resort to forking, in which case
you should pick a new name.
In both cases, you'd then push your code (without the debian/
directory) to a public repository and start releasing new versions;
which we can then deploy through our distributions.
> I also noticed there was a Git repository on Alioth for this package;
> would some form of Git export be preferred to patches?
See above: ensuring proper upstream releases that include your patches
is way preferable to a quilt suite in debian/patches.
Looking forward to new upstream releases!
Cheers,
OdyX
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