On Thursday 2016-04-07 17:12, Takashi Iwai wrote:
In general, we have "upstream-first" policy
The UF paragraphs you find on https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Patches_guidelines#Upstream_polic... are an *option* to (a) expedite patches when maintainers are the same, (b) soothe upstream's worry that there is an incompetent downstream at work. That, of course, does not invalidate the goal of least-patches-possible - sometimes you just have to try out a patch on your distro folks (this is where the "test mass" is) before upstreaming. :)
That said, the best route would be to submit the patches to upstream, then we backport them once when they are accepted. Otherwise wild patches may be a big PITA.
Wild patches, at least if properly documented per Type 2 Markup, are not as bad as you make them out to be. The PITA in packaging is wielding a big patch stack (irrespective of wild or backported), because you have to rerun quilt setup whenever there was a fuzz/reject, which increases with the number of total patches. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org