[SCM] bristol/master: Add tags as per dep-3
Jonas Smedegaard
dr at jones.dk
Wed Oct 27 10:06:57 UTC 2010
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:06:41AM +0200, Alessio Treglia wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> Please elaborate - in the bug header, not (only) here - on why
>> forwarding is not needed.
>
>Patch is debian-specific as we don't need to append
>/{,usr/{,local/}}lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and /usr/{,local/}bin to PATH.
>But true, touching upstream would be good anyway.
I did not imply that upstream needed to be contacted here - I didn't
know that.
My point was (and is) that you should not mark a patch as not needing to
be passed upstream, without at the same time clearly explaining *why*.
This is similar to suppressing a lintian warning: add an explanation.
Kind regards,
- Jonas
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