Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Bernd Zeimetz (be...@bzed.de): > It should as it means that it will be a PITA to find patches which were > applied > in Ubuntu and should be applied in Debian, too - or it means that we'll just > recreate the same patches as they are hidden somewhere in the mess Ubuntu made > without talk

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 12/03/2011 06:03 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > At the same time, I've been glad that particular user didn't conclude > that Debian sucks at maintaining packages just because the maintainer of > $foo did. Surely, I wouldn't have spent my time explaining to him what > was going on and how he co

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 05:38:24PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Exactly that is the kind of bullshit why a lot of Debian people hate > what Ubuntu does. At a conference once happened to me that, after the official question time, a Debian user approached me and told me something along the lines: "

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Exactly that is the kind of bullshit why a lot of > Debian people hate what Ubuntu does. Thanks for wasting your and our time > instead of just talking to the people who maintain a package you want to > change. I don't see how I'm wasting y

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 12/03/2011 05:33 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> - Ubuntu splitted the package and applied various changes without getting in >> contact with their Debian upstream about it. I'm not willing to try to figure >> out what they did and wh

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > - Ubuntu splitted the package and applied various changes without getting in > contact with their Debian upstream about it. I'm not willing to try to figure > out what they did and why and if it makes sense. >From a quick look at the package,

The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, as empathy, webkit and emerillon build-depend on geoclue these days, I thought its time to write something about it on d-devel instead of just orphaning it ;) We are facing several issues with geoclue: - upstream is more or less dead.The only commits I see in their git are bugfixes for major