requesting for changes to be sent to debian before sponsoring an upload

[Jordan Mantha]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> writes:
>
>> Le jeudi 19 juin 2008 à 08:09 -0700, Jordan Mantha a écrit :
>>
>>> tends to not take patches as readily when they're trying to freeze) so
>>> I would have a really hard time blocking perfectly good packages from
>>> being uploaded because of that.
>>
>> The suggestion is not to wait for the change to be available in debian
>> and sync this one but to wait until the change is send to the bts before
>> sponsoring the update
>
> This is a very good summary of your proposal. We perhaps should
> therefore ask all sponsors of merges to insist references to bugreports
> that document why that change is kept during the merge.
>
> The bugreport should go to ubuntu, if it is an ubuntu-only change and to
> debian, if the developer (sponsor or contributing developer) think the
> change might be acceptable for debian.
>

Combining thoughts from this and Lucas' thread, would it be reasonable
to have a README.Ubuntu (or similar) where we specifically document
the divergence? I'm not a big fan of epic changelog entries and I
think it kind of leads people to be too terse.

-Jordan