From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: andreas@fatal.se, kaber@trash.net, formorer@debian.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2: resend of patches from Debian.
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:54:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071011165415.7cf8cc30@freepuppy.rosehill> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071011.144843.125887830.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:48:43 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:22:12 +0200
>
> > Copying Alexander Wirt here again, as I think this is his patch.
>
> It is important that whoever is the package maintainer for an
> upstream piece of code in any distribution:
>
> 1) Completely understands the patches he is applying.
>
> and therefore:
>
> 2) When he submits upstream, he doesn't have to wake up
> 2,000 patch submitters from the dead just to figure out
> why a change was made.
>
> Neither seems to be occuring here.
Also, I want the correct author name for legal and technical reasons.
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-11 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-11 18:25 iproute2: resend of patches from Debian Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-11 19:25 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-10-11 19:59 ` Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-12 5:55 ` Alexander Wirt
2007-10-11 20:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-11 20:32 ` Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-11 20:30 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-10-11 21:22 ` Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-11 21:48 ` David Miller
2007-10-11 22:35 ` Andreas Henriksson
2007-10-11 22:38 ` David Miller
2007-10-12 5:50 ` Alexander Wirt
2007-10-12 8:34 ` David Miller
2007-10-11 23:54 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-10-11 21:05 ` Patrick McHardy
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