On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 07:57:27AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > They aren't necessarily more important changes, but Ubuntu, unlike other > derivatives, publishes deltas relative to Debian so that maintainers can > review them easily. > > If similar facilities are available for any other Debian derivative, I would > say that they should be included as well. However, I'm not aware of any. actually, a good interface to send patches back to debian in an easy way might even *make* more people provide deltas relative to debian. after all it must be a pain for a derived distribution to recompile every package on every update just because you have this tiny patch applied... so i'd say: a good way to notify maintainers of patches against their packages (apart from the bts) is probably cool. making it ubuntu-specific or (yuck!) applying these patches (semi-)automatically is bad. cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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