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Martin Schlander schrieb:
Mandag den 13. april 2009 23:25:47 skrev Tilman Schmidt:
When I started trying to help improving (Open)SUSE, the advice I got was that the best way to submit a patch was to open a Bugzilla entry describing the problem the patch was going to solve, and attach the proposed patch to it. Is that no longer true, and is it now acceptable to send personal mail to the packager of the package the file to be patched happens to be distributed in?
It's true if the patch is for openSUSE maintained code or packaging.
But if the patch is for upstream software, clearly the patch should be sent upstream and not to bnc.
AFAICT neither YaST (the software exposing the deficiency) nor hwinfo (the package containing the file that needs to be patched) are upstream software in that sense. But hwinfo doesn't seem to be openSUSE maintained either. So apparently there's a third category. How should that be handled? Thanks, Tilman PS: What is "bnc"? -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite)