Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 14:12 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway a écrit :
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 13:56 -0400, Jason Corley wrote:
> > derivation vs. upstream
> 
> Derivation: When you start with something and make changes specific to
> me. The end result is a derived work. In the derived work, the
> maintainer doesn't look to the original for all improvements, but
> rather, makes their own changes on top of this state
> .
> Upstream: The place where the developers of software live, where they
> take bugs on their software and publish source code.

A. Derivation: something you take, modify without looking back
B. Upstream/downstream: ecosystem where changes flow back and forth and
are consolidated upstream.

For the packages I know we are not in case A. You may wish it but it is
not so. Stop playing with words.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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