On 18/05/10 at 11:29 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 18/05/2010 09:52, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 18/05/10 at 09:04 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> PS as we already have some ubuntu information in the PTS, I'm copying > >> Lucas which IIRC contributed that other information: can you please > >> you two check that there is no overlapping in having both links? > > > > I'm not entirely convinced by the approach. What value does it add *on > > the PTS* compared to what is already available in the Ubuntu box? > > Wouldn't it be better to work with Ubuntu on a better patches.u.c? > > Well… I'not convinced by the current approach :) For me, it's way simpler > to read some lines of a changelog containing exactly the information I'm > looking for, instead of digging into a big patch with a lot of noise. > > Honestly, I consider the current "patches for …" link near to useless. I > think that maintainers (at least, me) don't want to waste too much time to > know important changes done in Ubuntu. The current "Ubuntu" box tell me > (in a readable and quick way) only the Ubuntu version, but doesn't list > the changes. It provides a patch, but I won't read every debdiff patch for > every package I want to inspect because it's a PITA. IMO, "UbuntuDiff" > answers that need. I also have in mind to add¹ some features like: a > simple patch viewer, list of packages in Ubuntu and not in Debian, etc…
UbuntuDiff does 3 things: A) aggregate data about a set of packages selected by grep-dctrl => orthogonal to what the PTS does B) provide links to some useful resources about the package => already done by the PTS C) extract the changelog from the diff => that's the main point we are interested in While I agree that (C) is a nice feature, it could go much further, providing direct links to the patches in debian/patches, extracting their description, etc. That's similar to what patch-tracker.debian.org aims at doing. The problem is that we need a good script that parses the diff and extracts the useful information. That script could be used on patch-tracker.debian.org and patches.u.c. Now, if we stuck to the changelog, it would be better to provide it as a box that appears when the mouse cursor is over the Ubuntu patch (using some cool javascript). You don't really need a separate service for that. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [email protected] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [email protected] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
