Re: patches question

[Andreas Enge]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:30:35AM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> In the case of netcat-openbsd, Debian is the Linux upstream,
> maintaining the port of netcat from OpenBSD.
> The patches have not seen an update since 2012 and are still
> functional.
> I can understand that we don't want to maintain more patches
> than necessary, so in the case of netcat-openbsd I'll contact
> Debian, as mentioned in the thread of the patch, to ask about
> a merge of their patches into their maintained port.

So did I understand correctly that the Debian project maintains the "official"
tarball of the software package, and at the same time, the same person main-
tains a patch series that is not part of the tarball? This sounds very
surprising.

Andreas