3 ms·

For Debian - would you say that's mostly package owner dependent, or more tied to the policy of "bug-fix without api change only" in stable? Or just overall poo

by e12e 8y ago

For Debian - would you say that's mostly package owner dependent, or more tied to the policy of "bug-fix without api change only" in stable? Or just overall poor culture of communicating with upstream - when upstream != maintainer of Debian package?

cperciva 8y ago
None of the cases I've seen have been related to the policy of avoiding API changes in stable. Most of them seem to be instances of "user files a bug with Debian; package maintainer adds a patch to address user's complaint but doesn't relay the bug report or the patch upstream".