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<primary>author, upstream</primary>
<primary>upstream</primary>
<primary>developer</primary><secondary>Debian developer</secondary>
<primary>Debian</primary><secondary>Developer</secondary>
<primary>developer</primary><secondary>upstream developers</secondary>
The term “upstream author” means the author(s)/developer(s) of a work, those who write and develop it. On the other hand, a “Debian developer” usually uses an existing work to make it into a Debian package - the term “Debian maintainer” is better suited here.
In practice, there can be overlaps between both roles: the Debian maintainer may write a patch, which benefits all users of the work. In general, Debian encourages those in charge of a package in Debian to get involved in “upstream” development as well (they become, then, contributors, without being confined to the role of simple users of a program). Or the Debian developer creates tools or documentation for the Debian distribution, like packaging helpers (e.g. <emphasis>debhelper</emphasis>) or integration frameworks (e.g. <emphasis>ca-certificates</emphasis>) and becomes an “upstream author” for those creations.
We will not hide problems.
Debian is not perfect, and, there will be new problems to fix every day. Debian will keep its entire bug report database open for public view at all times. Reports that people file on-line will promptly become visible to others.
Our priorities are our users and free software.
This commitment is more difficult to define. Debian imposes, thus, a bias when a decision must be made, and will discard an easy solution for the developers that will jeopardize the user experience, opting for a more elegant solution, even if it is more difficult to implement. This means to take into account, as a priority, the interests of the users and free software.

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  1. Debian Handbook
  2. 01_the-debian-project
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The term “upstream author” means the author(s)/developer(s) of a work, those who write and develop it. On the other hand, a “Debian developer” usually uses an existing work to make it into a Debian package - the term “Debian maintainer” is better suited here.
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