[Pkg-x2go-devel] [X2go-dev] Starting to get x2go into Ubuntu Oneiric

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 11-05-20 at 02:44pm, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi Stéphane,
> 
> On Do 19 Mai 2011 20:25:22 CEST Stéphane Graber wrote:
> >In an ideal world (to me), x2go would be maintaining a list of 
> >recommended patches on top of NoMachine's source code, that I could 
> >easily pull and integrate in the Debian package (as debian/patches/ 
> >files).
> 
> Jonas once warned me that maintaining to many patches for a project 
> lets the DD become an upstream fork maintainer... (I hope I got that 
> right...) ;-). There should be communication possible with whatever 
> upstream there is, shouldn't it?

Yes, patches can become a fork - e.g. if they break upstream API.

But keeping patchset small is no excuse for switching upstream.  Exact 
same (and more) concerns apply there.

There are many roads to hell.  Tread carefully.


 - Jonas

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