Hi, A lot of our packages are patched over upstream. Each of these comes with a maintenance cost and is also a source of bugs and frustration (quilt patches aren't the easiest things in the world to work with).
I think we should systematically look at our patches and re-evaluate for
each one
- Whether it is really (still) necessary — if not, drop
- If we can forward upstream if not already or if we can help
its upstream inclusion along
- Who is going to maintain the patch in the distro if it needs to be
kept as a local patch — desktop, PS, …
It would be good if we could use something like DEP5 headers for all
patches, including adding them to existing patches. It's sometimes
really quite difficult to figure out what a particular patch is for,
whether it is upstream and so on.
Cheers,
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Iain Lane [ [email protected] ]
Debian Developer [ [email protected] ]
Ubuntu Developer [ [email protected] ]
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