> Steve Langasek wrote: > > Does that mean you don't think Ubuntu developers contribute fixes > > back to Debian today?
As security, contributing fixes back to Debian is not a product nor a state, it's a process. We should all be interested in optimizing this process further. http://patches.ubuntu.com/ indeed makes the packages easier to merge but it is not as powerful as our patch tracking system [1]. One possible step to improve the situation could be a similar service provided by Ubuntu based on the work which already has been done by Sean Finney. The source code is available in a public repository and it is GPL2 licensed. After such a service would have been implemented one could think about things like adding a special tag to patch headers to recommend these patches to be merged by Debian. It could also be useful to be able to specify how strong such a recommendation is. Is there already a (wiki) page which describes how a Debian maintainer can track his packages in Ubuntu or how to handle Ubuntu originated bugs? If this is the case it should be promoted better, e.g. in Misc Developer News. Carsten [1] http://patch-tracking.debian.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org