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Re: Ubuntu delta by patchsize



On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:29:29 +0200
Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I wrote a script that lists Ubuntu patches by diff size [0]; its
> output is available in HTML [1] and plain text [2].

Nice work.

> The idea is that small patches are likely to be minor Ubuntu
> modifications that could possibly be useful in Debian as well.
> Indeed, they are also easier to inspect quickly than huge patches.
> For example, there are presently a few patches showing up on top of
> the script output that fix FTBFS bugs when ld is called with
> --as-needed [3], [4]. Whether this specific example applies to Debian
> I don't know, but still. :)

Handy! do you know if it would be easily modified to show patches for
other derivatives?

> Hopefully this idea can be interesting. The script has been sitting on
> people.d.o all alone since 2008 and it was high time to announce it
> somewhere. 

I'm wondering if it would be something that could be integrated with
patch-tracker.debian.org, it might be a good way to keep all patchy
stuff together.
thanks,
kk

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