[pkg-fso-maint] I need a DD to upload libfsoresource :-)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:36:57PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>This is not about esthetics but about transparency.  We bypass upstream 
>judgement on what is ready for release (no matter how wrong they are 
>and how qualified your proofs against their judgements), and our 
>diversion should automagically show up at e.g. 
>http://patch-tracker.debian.org/ which is the case when providing 
>(proper DEP3 hinted) patches rather than hiding the dispute as "it all 
>came from the upstream swamp".

Here are examples from some other packages that I am involved in:

http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/atomicparsley/0.9.2~svn110-3

Above package is badly packaged (shame on me!) in that the amount and 
nture of changes between latest upstream release and the development 
snapshot that I chose to base my work on is not easy 
machine-extractable.

For comparison, below is a package where I not only separate latest 
release from latest development, but also (to minimize patch size and 
potential maintainance head-aches) I separate commits and leave out 
those I find too invasive or irrelevant for Debian (e.g. bugfixes to 
Windows-specific build system):

http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/ghostscript/8.71~dfsg-2

Yes, it is more work to prepare patches. On the other hand, later bug 
tracking can be helped when both yourself, downstream users and upstream 
developers can very clearly see not only the upstream internal reference 
number (i.e. the commit ID) of our snapshot but more details on changes 
between that and upstream latest release (which non-Debian users can be 
expected to base their user experiences on).


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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