On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:13:19 +0200 "Michael Kerrisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hope this helps... > > Yes it does. Thanks for all these patches. I'm not sure what > Debian prefers, but for me, working upstream, inlined patches, That's interesting; as you deduced, the Debian guys seem to prefer the '-u' attachments. There may be a fix, but it's out of my hands at the moment. Background: I'm not a Debian maintainer, but a few years back I wrote a Debian-centric script to find and submit typo bugs, the script relies on the Debian BTS as a "one size fits all" interface with the rest of upstream. The occasional Debian maintainer has suggested it would be more efficient to send typo patches directly upstream; but then this script would have to cope with a plethora of upstream variables, (e.g. addresses & preferences), instead of one server interface; the Debian BTS serves as a public storage medium -- other users see the typos, and these eventually can be data mined (for common typos and useful patterns). Not a very elegant way of fixing typos -- it's a client-side kludge that evolved because I lack server access**. (**Given server-side capability, many useful things are possible. For example, upstream (or their Debian package maintainer) could submit preferences to our hypothetical typo server, and patches emailed upstream would be converted to one's favorite format.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
