On 08/29/2012 08:43 PM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
[...] Sending patches to upstream is a fine idea in theory, but unless you have the time and patience to register in a dozen of trackers, mailing lists and to provide a patch that will work on at least Linux, Windows, BSD, MAC OS, different kernel or library versions this only results in a burden that I personally do not want or care. I want openSUSE be better and working, that 's all I care about.
Sending patches upstream is really important - I believe it lowers the packagers work in the long run if patches are upstream. Looking at glibc and what hazzle it was for me to update to 2.15 and now after upstreaming a lot of patches, the update to 2.16 was rather smooth on the packaging side. Upstreaming a patch is work but it also means that an additional review happens. Remember the Debian openssl patch that introduced a serious problem? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org