On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Ralph Sennhauser <s...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Adopting a package to distribution specifics is perfectly valid. But > here it's about adding functionality to a package that wasn't there > before. The usual reaction in such situations is to tell users to bug > upstream about it first.
Adding an init.d script is hardly adding functionality - it is merely making the package functional at all. > If an upstream bug is filed and upstream says fuck off there is still a > bug report which would meet the requirement. Maybe some other distro > even filed the bug already for us. I agree that it is a good practice, but it isn't a requirement. We don't even require package maintainers to submit bugfix patches upstream, let alone init scripts. Maintainers should certainly be encouraged to do so, but it seems like we have enough trouble following rules like "don't touch packages you don't maintain, fail to test them, and end up breaking them." Rich
