You will probably agree that having a small delta with
upstream and
talking with them about the changes we do is a good thing:
we work on
the same codebase, everybody benefits from the fixes, extra
people (and
people knowing the code better) can comment on the changes
and how they
are done, etc. We usually try to work with them as much as
possible but
for different reasons (difference of schedule and
priorities, people
being too busy, etc) we often ship some changes in a
distribution
specific way too.
The start of a new cycle seems a good time to spend some
time to catch
up with that, that's why we will work next week (from
octobre the 30th)
on reducing the number of distribution specific changes.
The Desktop Team already has a wiki page for that:
ht
tps://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/UpstreamDelta. Other
teams might be
interest to do the same
Things you can do if you want to participate:
- forward the changes that should go upstream to their bug
tracker,
list, maintainer, etc
- forward the changes that can be useful for Debian to
Debian
- update htt
ps://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/UpstreamDelta and the
other
similar pages created on the wiki
If you have any question or want to talk about some changes
applied to a
package feel free to join #ubuntu-bugs on IRC (or any team
channel like
#ubuntu-desktop) or to comment on the corresponding
launchpad page
Sebastien Bacher
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