It's also preferable for an upstream maintainer to provide new releases in a manner that allows people to bisect patch history. I don't understand the distinction you're drawing.
Posted Mar 10, 2011 14:43 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
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The distinction he was drawing is pretty widely understood really, embodied fairly concretely as it is by the difference between the sources distributed by Linus for the Linux kernel (upstream) and those distributed by RedHat as the sources for the kernel RPM previously (to choose one example amongst many). It's not hard to grasp really. ;)