On Friday, November 22, 2024 12:53:11 PM MST Jérémy Lal wrote: > I'm still trying to understand if it's a good idea to contact upstream > authors and tell them their software is being worked on to be included in > Debian, or not. > My own experience has been that most upstream projects don't care about > Debian. > Some do, of course. But many don't. > With my experience, I realized that saying nothing was a safer bet > (sometimes it's really a good idea and most of the time it's not > acknowledged, and a few times it's a bad reception). > but it's somewhat disturbing ! > That subtlety in contacting upstream is documented somewhere ?
I personally have never had a bad experience communicating with upstream about packaging for Debian, although I am sure it has happened for other people. During the packaging process, if I have any questions at all, like why is a particular file needed, or how do I work around a particular test failure, or are they aware of a license conflict, I always reach out to them during the initial packaging process. If I don’t have any questions (because the package is really easy) I will drop them a line once the package has entered Debian with a link to the tracker.debian.org page. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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