Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: As a (largely) non coder, what should I look for in (say) gNewSenses patches to know if it can be filtered out automatically? Are there any common indicators? Anything that looks like cruft or things that the Debian maintainer does not need

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-31 Thread Karl Goetz
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:34:47 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: As a (largely) non coder, what should I look for in (say) gNewSenses patches to know if it can be filtered out automatically? Are there any common indicators?

Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Up to now the only options for pulling patches from distributions derived from Debian have been Ubuntu's Debian patches repository[1] and manual downloads of source packages from derivatives. In my estimation a more general way to do this would be desirable. 1.

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:50:07PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach might be to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastructure, generalise it and enhance it for this purpose. This will necessarily include mechanisms to mark patches as

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM, sean finney wrote: I think it's also worth some consideration about if/how it could be integrated with the Debian patch-tracker service (or perhaps supercede said service if it made more sense). Without thinking super hard on it it seems like it could have

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 25/10/2011 09:50, Paul Wise wrote: For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach might be to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastructure, generalise it and enhance it for this purpose. This will necessarily include mechanisms to mark patches as having been dealt with or

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 15:50:07 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Hi all, Up to now the only options for pulling patches from distributions derived from Debian have been Ubuntu's Debian patches repository[1] and manual downloads of source packages from derivatives. In my estimation a more general

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Karl Goetz
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:57:20 +0200 Mehdi Dogguy me...@dogguy.org wrote: On 25/10/2011 09:50, Paul Wise wrote: For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach might be to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastructure, generalise it and enhance it for this purpose. This will

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 26.10.2011, 08:49 +1100 schrieb Karl Goetz: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:57:20 +0200 Mehdi Dogguy me...@dogguy.org wrote: On 25/10/2011 09:50, Paul Wise wrote: For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach might be to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: Is there a reason to restrict this to derivatives?  I find patches from fedora rather more interesting than ubuntu's. Fedora don't use Debian source packages so we don't have anything to debdiff against. But I guess you mean patches

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: I'm glad you liked it. ubuntudiff¹ was made exactly to show this kind of data. Currently, all ubuntudiff needs to produce html pages in some file listing source package names and associated patches. So, nothing is really bound to

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: I'm glad you liked it. ubuntudiff¹ was made exactly to show this kind of data. Currently, all ubuntudiff needs to produce html pages in some file listing source package names and associated patches. So, nothing is really bound to