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[Kevin Kofler]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> We provide upstream code in a unified set of repositories, tested to
> interact properly. Did I say that we're not supposed to patch code
> shipped by upstream? No. What I said - or rather, the belief my
> statement was based on, because this isn't exactly what I said - is that
> we don't generally carry permanent long-term downstream patches just to
> change upstream behaviour that we disagree with. This is a bad thing to
> do.

I don't agree with this statement, and in fact we do carry such patches in 
several packages (and I think that's often a good thing, upstreams sometimes 
have really horrible ideas about how their software should behave (by 
default)).

        Kevin Kofler