[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#760273: Bug#760273: gnupg.info: typo: Ceation -> Creation

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 09/03/2014 04:13 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Tue, September 2, 2014 15:49, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> Thanks, i've sent a patch upstream for this, and will drop a patch in
>> the debian packaging to fix it in the meantime.
> 
> For GnuPG 1 I've tried to maintain a "minimal patches" policy. Patches
> have a cost, is my experience in a package that I got which had about 50
> patches for bugs of wide variety, indeed, quite a few also for such
> documentation typos as above.
> 
> Given that upstream is normally very responsive and receptive to fix such
> issues, I don't see much need to patch non-critical issues in Debian
> locally. This issue in particular should of course be fixed upstream but I
> think it has near zero impact on the usability of GnuPG in Debian, so it
> can easily wait to be fixed when we import the next upstream, no?

I think we've got different instincts here; i'm willing to do things the
way you describe if you feel strongly about it, but let me briefly
explain why i would tend to lean the other way:

For patches that are likely to be applied upstream as-is (or have
already been applied but not released), i don't think i see the
disadvantages of including them in the debian packaging while the issue
remains unfixed upstream -- when a new version is released with the fix,
we can just delete them from debian/patches/

This also provides a way to keep the open bug count down (which makes it
easier to see what issues are truly unresolved), and makes tracking the
bugs eventually fixed upstream simpler: We don't need to comb through
the list of outstanding bugs at each new upstream release and figure out
which ones were actually fixed -- we can just delete the patches that no
longer apply and move on.

Anyway, i'm fine going with your preferred approach if you feel
strongly, and i definitely don't want to carry any heavy divergence from
upstream.

What do you think?

	--dkg


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