On Friday 03 September 2010 15:50:38 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
I would like to start a discussion, hopefully resulting in a packaging policy regarding patches in our packages. Very often it is difficult to see in a package, when a patch was added, when it was modified, when disabled, and when deleted.
In order to address all those questions, and some more, we would like to globally introduce (for Factory it might become mandatory; autobuild team is considering to enforce the rule), a new policy about this.
I'm all for a standard packaging policy, but before we go rushing into any one implementation's details, can I draw the thread's attention to the existing cross-distribution proposal for a standard patch metadata policy? A common patch tagging system would be useful for sharing work with upstreams and other distros. Proposal: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ Discussion: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/distributions/2009- June/000316.html This policy is also in use at openSUSE: http://old-en.opensuse.org/KDE/Patch_Annotation_Policy Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org