Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines
On 16/06/09 at 17:18 +0200, sean finney wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:27:45PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > (possibly fixed by the patch). The `Bug` field is reserved
> > > for the bug URL(s) in the upstream bug tracker.
> >
> > What about using Debian: (like Ubuntu's Patch Tagging Guidelines) to
> > indicate which Debian bug is fixed by this patch?
>
> Debian: could be considered a shorthand alias for Bug-Debian maybe? I
> guess that could also address the above issue that i mentioned.
Let's not add aliases for the tag names now, please :-)
> > I Think that there's one field missing: DebianSpecific. This field would
> > indicate why the patch is Debian-specific, and should not be forwarded
> > upstream.
>
> i think something like this would be useful as well. i'll throw a
> suggestion out there:
>
> * `Debian-Specific` (optional)
>
> Is this patch a debian-specific patch that is not intended to be
> shared with upstream? For example, changes to specify Debian-specific
> application paths, configuration file locations, etc.
The rationale for using DebianSpecific (instead of Debian-Specific) is
that Ubuntu uses UbuntuSpecific, not Ubuntu-Specific.
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