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c-hendricks on Oct 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is Debian the way it is?

Do they just patch the package in Debian or do they submit them upstream?

pabs3 on Oct 9, 2023 [–]

Usually both, submit upstream and add the patch to Debian while waiting for upstream to accept the patch.

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