On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:04:47AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Shawn Starr (sstarr(a)platform.com) said:
> Please don't force packagers to have to bug upstream about what changed. Unless
another set of Fedora people
> want to dig for that information to update the packager. Some of us don't have
the time to nag upstream about what they changed.
If you don't have the time to find out, *as a maintainer*, what changed,
you shouldn't be maintaining it.
I don't think that's true at all. As a *packager*, my job is to
package correctly and respond to packaging bugs. Sometimes that
involves a little bit of code maintenance -- so you need to be a jack
of all trades^Wprogramming languages -- but I am by no means an expert
on the ins and outs of every version of every package I look after.
Rich.
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