Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-17 Thread Filipus Klutiero
I'm not sure whether you mean bug in the strict sense or in the BTS's sense. Do you think a divergence is a minor bug or a wishlist "bug"? I disagree that any divergence is a bug, but there may be a request to get rid of a divergence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Finney wrote: > Saying that the plural 3.0 source formats allow Debian tools to > consume multiple package source formats is equivalent to saying that > upstream developers have no standard source format to rely on from > Debian. Upstream largely don't touch distribution source packages. Where

Re: Tracking divergence from upstream as a bug (was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Finney wrote: > Care to discuss what tags you plan to use, so an attempt at consensus > can be made on naming the tags for this purpose? I'm using a "divergence" usertag, with users [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (so it'll show up on my bugs page, and the package's bug page -- not ide

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Filipus Klutiero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure whether you mean bug in the strict sense or in the BTS's > sense. Do you think a divergence is a minor bug or a wishlist "bug"? I > disagree that any divergence is a bug, but there may be a request to get > rid of a divergence. I won't s

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-17 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > What if we just decide that changes made to upstream sources[1] qualify > as a bug? A change might be a bug in upstream, or in the debianisation, > or in Debian for requiring the change. But just call it a bug. > Everything else follows from that quite natu

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-17 Thread Ben Finney
George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I strongly believe that [...] there is no any urgent need for more > infrastrucre enhancements and yet another places to look at (like > teaching BTS/PTS of doing additional DD-upstream communication > processing which brings even more complexity to the

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