About forwarding bugs and patches to Debian and documenting your changes

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 18/06/08 at 04:44 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> In my experience, reactions to the diff available on PTS are rare.  If I 
> want something feed back to Debian, I almost invariably have to put a bug 
> in BTS with the patch.  I can explain the rationale there.

That's a chicken-and-egg problem. Changes are poorly commented, so
changes don't get merged in Debian, so you feel it's useless to improve
the documentation of the changes.

Of course, improving the description of the changes won't magically make
all DDs merge the changes proposed by Ubuntu. But I think it's still
worth trying.
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