On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Of course it would be nicer if patches were reported automatically to us.
This is by no means a universally held view within Debian. The current approach of only pushing patches to Debian maintainers as manual bug reports is a result of public discussion several years ago on debian-devel (or debian-project), in which a number of developers objected to the idea of receiving automatic mails every time Ubuntu made a change on the grounds that this would generate lots of unwelcome noise. If you prefer to be automatically notified about all changes in Ubuntu, I believe the PTS gives you an option to do this by subscribing to the 'derivatives' keyword. For my part, as a Debian maintainer I greatly prefer receiving bug reports with Ubuntu patches because I find the signal-to-noise is much better when you have a person to talk to instead of trying to extract meaning from a changelog alone. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
