On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:57:04AM +0200, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: > I'd like mutt-patched or similar. I'm still not sure whether building it > from the same source package is a wise idea, though. What could work is > building if from the same source, but in experimental only. Somebody > (somebody being me, Christoph, or much preferably some intersted party) > would have to take care of merging unstable back to experimental after > each upload.
I already do this for the sidebar patch anyway, so I don't mind doing an upload to experimental with it. I assume there are other features people would like to get in besides sidebar, so I suggest we setup a set of policies for working together. Here's a couple to give an idea of what I'm thinking... Patch Owners ------------ At least one owner exists for each patch. This maintainer is responsible for porting (or working with their upstreams to port) patches to new releases. Regressions Permitted --------------------- Uploads to experimental should occur at most 1 week after a new version enters unstable. If a patch requires port work and the patch maintainer does not complete this work within the week, that patch will be dropped. This patch can of course be reapplied in a future upload once the porting work is complete. Exceptions are of course permitted - if a patch maintainer needs a few extra days, they may request a delay of the upload, if there's a critical fix (e.g., security vulnerability), an upload may occur immediately omitting features that have to be ported. Also, it'd be good to have a place to coordinate these uploads. If there's no pre-existing forums, I'd suggest either a lists.debian.net list or to simply open a wishlist bug with every unstable release requesting a new mutt-patched upload and work through the issues there. > Yeah, I think I like that, at least as a start to see how it works out. > I can write the infraestructure to build the two packages from the same > source, so that the resulting job is a matter of grabbing the package > from unstable, comment out a flag in debian/rules or similar, and adjust > the conflicts if any, and/or upload the experimental patches with a new > version. When there are none, upload, or ping us for an upload if > they're not a DD. > > Any takers? That sounds good, thanks Adeodato. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
