Thanks, Boris. Your advice seems like the way to go. The link to UsingQuilt[1] seems like it will be particularly helpful.
On 2024-04-12 12:25, Boris Shtrasman wrote: > I'm not a debian developer, however I sent some patches in the past for > the Debian project. > Open a bug on the BTS describing the issue (you can use reportbug). > Check in salsa.debian.org if the project is there, if it is , you need > to create an account , create a patch using the quilt system and do an > MR inside of that patch. mention in the MR that you are fixing bug X > > If it's not on salsa, get the source that exist in debian , and create > quilt pactch and send it to the mailing list that is related to that > project. > > [1]https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuilt > > it might take some time that the maintainer would reply , so asking > around over IRC iat OFTC might help to find how to reach to the person > correctly. > > From experience it's better to push changes first to the upstream and > only then update Debian with the updated version , that way other > distributions would enjoy these features too. > p.s. it might be a problem to send patches to the Debian project post > Debian Project Leader actions in recent months. -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list -- linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il To unsubscribe send an email to linux-il-le...@cs.huji.ac.il
