[Bug 530090] Review Request: emacs-goodies - Miscellaneous add-ons for Emacs

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--- Comment #62 from Peter Galbraith <psg at debian.org>  2009-12-16 10:16:47 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #58)

> The Fedora policies says, that patches which are not Fedora specific should be
> forwarded to upstream for integration into the main sources.
> 
> Because the big diff files seams to be a patch which is not Fedora specific, it
> may be nice if we can got integrate it into the main sources.
> 
> The advance of integrate the patch into the main sources are:
> 
> 1.) Better maintainmence for the packages
> 
> 2.) Clarification that this is part of the common upstream distribution of the
> software

Tricky.  The thing is that I am not the real upstream author for the majority
of these files.  I have bundled them and made their setup and integration
easier for Debian.  So in that regard my changes rightly appear in a separate
diff file (the same as if you made the changes).  But for you, I am "upstream"
for this repackaging.  I _could_ include the patches in the tar file and still
comply with Debian's own package policies (although some in Debian might not
agree) by still keeping the patches under the debian/ directory, in
debian/patches/.

I may do this in the next release.

Peter

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