On Tue, Aug 04 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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.
Perhaps Ubuntu should correct it's web page, then, in light of the apparent fact that automatic feeding of patches upstream is not in fact reality? manoj -- It is better to wear chains than to believe you are free, and weight yourself down with invisible chains. Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org