On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:38:46AM +0100, Emanuele Giaquinta
<[email protected]> wrote:
> apply that patch without asking us about it? The only correct approach
> is to contact upstream in these cases, because a package maintainer
> usually lacks the required knowledge to decide.
Or to apply the patch, if it's urgent, and send it upstream.
More responsible distributions even have rules for that. Ideally, there
shouldn't be rules for that either - the free software world lives from these
kinds of exchanges. Debian shouldn't be sitting around on potential bugfixes
for example, keeping them to themselves. If you love free software, you share
it freely and make sure improvements are for the benefit of others.
The added avdantage is that sending stuff upstream will have a higher
chance of finding bugs (again, let's refer to the e2fsck, cron and openssl
desasters in debian to see why it is useful...)
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