[josm-dev] JOSM-Tested

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> I'm not too much into how Debian/Ubuntu work but don't they have the
> concept of a package maintainer who is usually not part of the software
> project in question, but just decides which version of the software he
> packages with which version of the rest?

Actually this is normal. I do same for muliple projects for openSUSE and I 
only participate in few of them. Usually you only package newest version 
and that's it. Sometimes you fix bugs and try to get them imported in 
upstream as soon as possible to reduce maintenance overhead. In a very few 
cases packaging is like branching (expecially if upstream has strange 
opinions about how bugs should be handled or what should be defined as 
bug).

Ciao
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