On 2006-01-07 18:34:53 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > based on the patch you send in on 24th of November i tried to review > your patch. This 18MB patch seem to only consist of changes upstream > made. This are _not_ only changes to a stable program that are > necessary to keep it functional but a complete backport of a package. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't debian-volatile created to keep programs functional where upstream changes too frequently (or too massively) to make just fixing bugs infeasible? I know zilch about the gnutella protocol and how much it changed since the release of sarge, so I'll try to ask the question generally: If stable contains version X of a program, and that version turns out to be unusable because of massive changes in the environment it is supposed to be used in, and there is a current version Y of the program, would not the correct way to include the program in volatile to package version Y instead of creating a huge patch with all the changes between X and Y? hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Ich sehe nun ein, dass Computer wenig |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | geeignet sind, um sich was zu merken. | | | hjp@hjp.at | __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Holger Lembke in dan-am
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