Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 19:37:14 UTC 2008


On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:15:27 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 19:57 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> >  On the contrary, I don't think anyone really
> > considers an upstream tarball, which is stripped off of mp3 codecs at the
> > source-level 
> 
> That one was fixed the way it should have been originally - upstream has
> accommodated us with a source level split (-good, -bad, -ugly).  

You seem to refer to GStreamer, whereas I refer to multiple other packages
in general. We've had cases where upstream rejected patches (to implement
dlopen plugins e.g.).

> Anyways, I just spoke up because recently I discovered Debian was
> patching some of my software - the patch was useful, but did I ever get
> a bug filed in the issue tracker or a post to the discussion group?
> Nope. 

In my experience (and it has been confirmed often) Debian is known for not
submitting many patches and customisations upstream. And that is not
limited to their self-written man pages.




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list