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Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.



On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 04:02 +0800, Keng-Yu Lin wrote:
> 2010/11/5 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
[...]
> > Because it's not upstream.  So the next question is, why is it not
> > upstream (in staging)?
> >
> > Ben.
> >
> > --
> > Ben Hutchings
> > Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
> >
> 
> Because staging tree is a place to dump the code temporarily if you
> commit to improve the driver and make it upstream eventually.
> 
> >From [1], "it is not a place to dump code and then run away, hoping
> that someone else will do the cleanup work for you.  While there are
> developers available to do this kind of work, you need to get someone
> to agree to "babysit" the code."
[...]

This statement applies equally to Debian, doesn't it?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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