"Staying close to upstream"

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 04:51:40PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> * This policy of sticking religiously to upstream means we are not shipping 
> KDE integration for Firefox, despite patches from openSUSE existing. This 
> makes Firefox suck under KDE. Our Firefox maintainers refuse to do anything 
> about it.

If it's not good enough for upstream, why is it good enough for us? 
Who's committing to maintaining these patches? What's their turnaround 
speed if a security issue forces an update tht breaks them?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org