On 05/06/07 21:11, Sam Morris wrote: > Hi there, Hi Sam > I maintain the Debian package of pymsnt. I recently found the utnubu > service that displays the differences between Debian packages and their > counterparts in Ubuntu. I looked up pymsnt and saw that you're patching > the code like so: <snip> > Could someone please let me know what the purpose of this patch is?
>From the changelog: "- debian/patches/130_twisted_2.5.patch: Add patch to work with Twisted 2.5." See http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/p/pymsnt/ for the ubuntu additions to the pymsnt changelogs > In addition it would be nice if you could push changes upstream to the > maintainer of the Debian package and to the original upstream > developers, so that other users of Debian, Debian-derived distributions > and other distributions can benefit from them. :) I believe this is usually standard practice. I guess this one slipped through without being forwarded upstream. The change seems to relate to this bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/103102 which links to the origin of the patch. Hope that helps -- Andy Price -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
