On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:01:52PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Maybe it's a good idea filling bugs to maintainers so they can be aware of this problem. I don't think it's a bug if a package doesn't work out of the box with different linker flags.
I think the opposite way. Being involved in Wireshark development I
have to go and check all the big distros for changes made, find out
why and by whom and then apply what appears to be useful.
<rant>
It's *really* annoying! Why can't the package maintainers open a bug
with Wireshark for every patch that isn't 100% distro specific and
let the project maintainers decide what is acceptable and what isn't?
While I'm ranting anyway: Each and every patchfile that is part of
a source package should contain a description and information on the
author(s) - how am I supposed to give credit correctly otherwise when
I decide that a patch is useful? Normally figuring out the credits
part is more work than finding out whether to apply a patch or not.
</rant>
Ciao
Joerg
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Joerg Mayer