On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:15:27 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 19:57 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > On the contrary, I don't think anyone really > > considers an upstream tarball, which is stripped off of mp3 codecs at the > > source-level > > That one was fixed the way it should have been originally - upstream has > accommodated us with a source level split (-good, -bad, -ugly). You seem to refer to GStreamer, whereas I refer to multiple other packages in general. We've had cases where upstream rejected patches (to implement dlopen plugins e.g.). > 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. In my experience (and it has been confirmed often) Debian is known for not submitting many patches and customisations upstream. And that is not limited to their self-written man pages. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
