+1 Very good idea. -Matthew Lye
Leadership is responsibility, not privilege, Action, not position, Guidance, not knowledge, and outcome, not disposition. <No trees were harmed during this transmission. However, a great number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Iain Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, > > -- > Iain Lane [ [email protected] ] > Debian Developer [ [email protected] ] > Ubuntu Developer [ [email protected] ] > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop > >
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