On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 15:18 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Colin Walters (walters@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > 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. Now I've been guilty of this myself before in the past, and in > > fact I maintained the GStreamer package years ago, and didn't do > > anything to try to work with upstream on the mp3 issue. Now I think > > people do talk too blithely about patching or modifying upstream as just > > part of "packaging"; there is a lot of responsibility to be taken with > > the power to patch. > > Waaaaaaaay back in the day (i.e., before Fedora) we asked the upstream > of the first of these packages (XMMS) about it. They weren't interested > in doing a release with it removed themselves. Yeah, not every upstream is as good as Thomas is; on the other hand, few are worse than XMMS =) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
