On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 02:33:37PM -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
> During the Debian health check session at UDS we got some feedback
> that the submittodebian tool in ubuntu-dev-tools could use some love.
> On IRC ScottK mentioned that "One issue with it is that is pushes the
> entire Ubuntu diff as a patch.  That's generally not very useful."

I never intended for anyone to just run submittodebian and accept the
defaults. :)

When I've used it myself to submit stuff that really constituted two
distinct changes, I've run it twice, and on each run removed all the
stuff that didn't pertain to the change in question.  That's why it
fires up an editor with the debdiff in it. Perhaps this isn't very well
documented :(

I couldn't think of a way to separate a patch into logically separate
pieces without creating separate Ubuntu versions for the distinct
changes just for this purpose, but I myself at least never had the
discipline (nor motivation) to do that. :)

-- 
Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Developer
http://www.ubuntu.com/

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