> Even if the answer is 'yes' I think the bug and patches should still be > forwarded. In an ideal world a packager should follow the package's > development upstream and have some communication with it's developers. > > If there are lingering bugs, the project has become stagnant and there > is no one to commit changes and release a new version then I would > consider taking the package out of the repo altogether. Move it to > unsupported. > > Another issue here is if the project has some > philosophical/technical/other issues with the patch. There's no easy > solution here. That's something that has to be considered on a case by > case basis. If it's bad enough, someone might decide to fork. :D > > It's good to make upstream problems known. Users and developers should > work to fix the problems from the source rather than only patching > things locally. Imagine how many more users from all distros will > benefit if things are patched upstream. It's the user's job as well as > the developers' to bug upstream once he or she knows the facts. You describe what i once thought archlinux is all about. Maybe my ideas are not so wrong after all? -- best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Arvid Ephraim Picciani
