Bug#543541: RFH: quilt -- Tool to work with series of patches
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Ryan Niebur wrote:
> I'm willing to help.
Cool.
> > There is lots of work to do:
> > - update all the patches for the new upstream version (and we have 22
> > patches)
> > Martin Quinson started this work but he has not yet pushed his work
> > in a public branch, hopefully that mail will remind him to do it
> > - document all the patches and submit them upstream even if they have been
> > not very receptive to some of them a few years ago (in particular the
> > rewrite of backup-files in shell apparently)
>
> I'm guessing these two should wait for Martin.
Martin, can you push what you have in a branch (say experimental)?
> > - go through open bug reports and forward them upstream as well
> >
>
> okay, will look at them.
Well, we should first verify that they are not fixed in the new upstream
version... so getting some packages of 0.48 is important.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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