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

Jon Severinsson jon at severinsson.net
Wed Jul 16 06:56:29 PDT 2014


At Wednesday 16 July 2014 15:14:59 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> It should not come as a surprise to anyone given that Debian has such an
> diverse user base that there exist mass hacks in the distribution to
> please them all so filtering is needed/expected before things are being
> submitted upstream hence one would think they as in the Debian systemd
> team would have collaborated/communicated better amongst themselves
> before mass pushing downstream carried patches upstream so only the
> *relevant* upstream patches would be pushed.
> 
> Perhaps next time ;)

Well, I did filter out 30 Debian-specific hacks, and did gather feedback from 
several other team members over IRC before sending it, but obviously that 
didn't reach everyone...


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