On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:15:27 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 19:57 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On the contrary, I don't think anyone really considers an upstream tarball, which is stripped off of mp3 codecs at the source-level
That one was fixed the way it should have been originally - upstream has accommodated us with a source level split (-good, -bad, -ugly).
You seem to refer to GStreamer, whereas I refer to multiple other packages in general. We've had cases where upstream rejected patches (to implement dlopen plugins e.g.).
Anyways, I just spoke up because recently I discovered Debian was patching some of my software - the patch was useful, but did I ever get a bug filed in the issue tracker or a post to the discussion group? Nope.
In my experience (and it has been confirmed often) Debian is known for not submitting many patches and customisations upstream. And that is not limited to their self-written man pages.