On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 05:50:12PM +0100, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
On 29 August 2012 13:42, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar <DimStar@opensuse.org> wrote:
The rules about patches are listed at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Patches_guidelines . Most prominent is likely the mentioning of the patches life cycle, which forces you to mention additions and removals of patches in the changelog. As history shows, this can be helpful if a patch got removed, and later a regression is reported; finding out when a patch was removed can be crucial in reconstructing feature sets (including contacting the contributor that dropped it.. which is easily extracted from the .changes if listed)
More important than the .changes content IMHO is the "# PATCH-*" line. It forces people to report bugs upstream, and the reference to the bug report is priceless.
I don't see how you can *force* people to do something with this. It just means that the work done in the devel packages will stay there and not go into Factory. Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Schroeder mls@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF Jeff Hawn, HRB 16746 AG Nuernberg main(_){while(_=~getchar())putchar(~_-1/(~(_|32)/13*2-11)*13);} -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org