: On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Andreas Haumer wrote:
:
: >Now every distribution seems to have its own "patch-set". Do they
: >report their patches back to the maintainers of the standard packages?
Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no.
This `patch set' has the bad property that patches often are
kept as long as the patch applies cleanly and the resulting
source compiles. I have seen several cases where patches
that once were OK introduced bugs in a more recent version
of the package.
: Debian should report it as it does for bugfix (the maintainer of the
: standard package can download the patch from the Debian source mirror
: though since the patch against official sources is always in plain diff -u
: gzipped format).
Yes. Yesterday, or perhaps the day before, just before releasing
man-pages-1.20, I fetched the diff for Debian's "stable" man-pages package
(1.15-4 from memory), and noticed several cases of a correct man page
that was patched so as to become incorrect. Very strange, this lack of
quality control, where users are better off with the default distribution
than with the Debian "improved" version.
Andries
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