Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:44:12PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> * debian/patches/fix_typo.patch:
> Fix typo in the main menu: s/setings/settings
> I would actually be duplicating the description (the patch name being the
> short description, and the changelog entry the long description).
> The only piece of information that is missing is the forwarded field; hence
> my proposed simplification.
Part of the problem here is that the changelog isn't a particularly good
place to document the source of the package - it's roughly similar to
the situation with normal source code where you'd expect the code to be
readable without the changelog to explain it.
> All I see here is that the tools should be able to extract the information
> from the changelog, which often includes a bug number and other bits of
> information.
This would work adequately for trivial patches but is likely to have
issues if the patch is more involved and needs revisions (for things
like upstream changes or as part of making it mergeable).
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