On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 02:34:10 pm Reuben Thomas wrote: > The implications from this are unfortunate: > > a. We will do nothing unless you prove in detail that the package can > be synced to Debian. This implication could be removed by simply > making the automatic response to a sync request a little more > friendly: "Thank you for your sync request. We'll try to get around to > it, but you can help us immensely by following the procedure on this > page: ..." > > b. When there are Ubuntu changes to a Debian package that need to > remain in a new version, we won't bother syncing the new version. This > is clearly false: there are many packages which are updated, even > though Ubuntu-specific changes need to be forward-ported. This > implication can be removed by adding instructions to the sync request > wiki page on what to do in this circumstance.
c. I doesn't need a sync, it needs a merge. It looks like you got caught up a bit in Ubuntu specific terminology. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Merging No doubt the documentation and such around this could stand a lot of improvement. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
