[systemd-devel] Misc patches from the Debian systemd package

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:03 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
<johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 07/16/2014 10:09 AM, Jon Severinsson wrote:
>>
>> I'm part of the team working on updating the Debian systemd package to
>> v214.
>> As part of that work I have been rebasing and updating the Debian specific
>> patches, and found several that might be appropriate for upstream.
>>
>> While I'm not the original author of these I have been rebasing and
>> updating
>> them, so while most the credit goes to the original autors, any blame
>> should
>> fall on me :-P
>>
>
> Given that there already has been Debian developer involved with pushing and
> integrating systemd into Debian so I have to ask are you sure these patches
> are not downstream with Debian simply because they are Debian specific or
> atleast at this point I would think they would have been submitted and
> merged already if they where not...

It is probably just not obvious enough.

The packagers who add patches to the Debian package should probably
leave notes in the patch there why this patch isn't upstream, or not
meant to go upstream.

Kay