Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jun 1998 18:51:52 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: RedHat and Debian |
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Andrea[s] Arcangeli writes:
: 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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