Re: Does your upstream know you? They should. (Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian)

2003-04-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:02:02PM +0200, Andrea Capriotti wrote: > "A big part of your job as Debian maintainer will be to stay in contact > with the upstream developers..." > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-developer-duties.en.html#s-upstream-coordination I thought

Re: Does your upstream know you? They should. (Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian)

2003-04-24 Thread Andrea Capriotti
Il gio, 2003-04-24 alle 21:07, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > A Debian maintainer should not be a stranger to the upstream maintainer. > Your (active) upstreams should _already_ know who you are and that you are > responsible for the Debian packaging of their software. The one thing that > they need to k

Does your upstream know you? They should. (Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian)

2003-04-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:17:16AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > Imagine you are the developer of some random piece of free software. You > don't necessarily use Debian; you certainly don't understand all its > systems and protocols. > The conventional way to get in touch with the developers of a