[Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

[Martin Quinson]

Le dimanche 22 novembre 2009 à 21:42 +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher a
écrit : 
> On Sunday 22 November 2009 15:47:58 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > BTW, we have lots of patches in the Debian package, but the current
> > maintainers (me included) are quite busy and most of them have not yet
> > been properly forwarded.
> 
> I didn't see some of those fixes ever before.  You Debian guys must really 
> like maintaining stuff yourself, else you would have pushed most of that 
> upstream right away.

Hello,

I agree that we kinda have a communication problem. As far as I can say,
it goes back to Feb 2007, and this mail in particular:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/quilt-dev/2007-02/msg00017.html

which is the answer to a mail proposing the most important patch of the
debian pile: the conversion of backup-files into a shell script. As long
as this important patch isn't accepted by you guys, there is no need to
try pushing the other little ones. The other fixes are details. At
least, that's my point, even if it can be debated. 

The thing is that I read this mail as "your patch is not good enough, I
have a better solution here, but you should redo it by yourself". I got
demotivated by this: I fully understand that the patch is improvable,
but I'm not having any exam here. If there's a better way of doing so,
why not sharing it? I'm not blaming anyone beside me: that's a feeling
that I should have shared with you guys since a long time (ie, almost 3
years). I never even tried to ask Jean for the improved patch, shame on
me.

I admit that I was a bad maintainer for all this years, and thank
Raphael for pushing me forward. So, enough whining, let's try to be
productive.

Andreas, please feel free to pick and integrate the easy patches, I'll
try to improve the backup-files patch this week.

Bye, Mt.

-- 
I may have accepted your paper, but I had better things to do so I
didn't read it. -- Bastard Reviewer From Hell