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Re: Bug#483179: PTS: please link to Ubuntu Launchpad bugs page



On Wed, 28 May 2008 20:39:09 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> said: 

> On 28/05/08 at 17:26 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
>> Riku Voipio schrieb am Wednesday, den 28. May 2008:
>> 
>> *snip*
>> 
>> > The world does not spin around debian.
>> ehm wrong, the world of a derivate spins about debian.

> You can see it the other way: Ubuntu is kind of to provide it changes
> to Debian in a reasonable way (on patches.u.c). We can't even say the
> same thing from Debian when talking about upstream patches.

        I do not consider that reasonable, no.

        I would much rather prefer Ubuntu does to their upstream what
 I do with mine: I send distinct patch series, rebased to their current
 version, in their preferred forum: either thier BTS, or their mailing
 list.

        *That* is reasonable.  I don't have time to go trawling through
 whatever location the 162 Debian derivatives have set up with their
 patches; and I do not want a monolithic patch, with the derivative
 branding mixed in with changes I have made that they cherry picked on
 top of an ancient version of mine, all munged together.

        If you think that is reasonable, perhaps you should not be
 designing a patch management system?

        manoj
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