Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

Brian May <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
Organization Debian
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Ian Jackson <[email protected]> writes:

> The reason there are as many as four there is that we're maintaining a
> downstream patch queue, and maintaining and updating and sharing a
> such a downstream patch queue, with git, is an open research problem.

An added complexity is that sometimes upstream will add non-DFSG
compliant files to their source, and as such we have to repackage the
upstream orig tar.gz file to remove these files.

Something that as a maintainer I have already hated.
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