On Mon, 2017-12-04 at 14:54 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 4 December 2017 at 14:17, David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] <dkaspar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 4) He found a fix for it, created a new patch and added it into the package > > I maintain/own. > > Did you say thanks? To any proven packagers out there, feel free to > fix bugs in any of the packages I own. DK has a point about process, though. A patch in a package with no useful context is one of my least favourite things. As DK says, it's effectively a "hidden work landmine": whoever put it there has bequeathed the poor bastard who has to deal with it in future a bunch of needless work figuring out why the patch is there, where it came from, and when it can be removed. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
