http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/11/14/flipping-angry-with-ubuntu/ Blog about geeky stuff Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:38:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/11/14/flipping-angry-with-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Anonymous Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:00:35 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/11/14/flipping-angry-with-ubuntu/#comment-139 Hi, You shouldn't generalise to the distro -- it all depends on your package's maintainer. I'm a developer of Claws Mail, and we have a great, great Debian packager that actually forwards bugs upstream, gets patches merged when we accept them. Our Gentoo maintainer is great too. Both of them actually take part in the development process, hang around in our IRC channel and mailing-lists, etc. Our Redhat maintainer is also good at communicating with upstream. Packagers from other distros, though, range from average to very low. Our ubuntu maintainer, if there is one (we're not in Ubuntu's "main", that probably doesn't help), does crap - no forwarding bugs to upstream, not even reacting to them usually, fixes packaging scripts without understanding them and ending up with wrong dependencies, etc. I do think there are great maintainers at Ubuntu, only, not all of them are! Hi, You shouldn't generalise to the distro — it all depends on your package's maintainer. I'm a developer of Claws Mail, and we have a great, great Debian packager that actually forwards bugs upstream, gets patches merged when we accept them. Our Gentoo maintainer is great too. Both of them actually take part in the development process, hang around in our IRC channel and mailing-lists, etc. Our Redhat maintainer is also good at communicating with upstream. Packagers from other distros, though, range from average to very low. Our ubuntu maintainer, if there is one (we're not in Ubuntu's “main”, that probably doesn't help), does crap – no forwarding bugs to upstream, not even reacting to them usually, fixes packaging scripts without understanding them and ending up with wrong dependencies, etc. I do think there are great maintainers at Ubuntu, only, not all of them are!

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