Re: Ubuntu Patches
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 03:02:32AM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Then I'm having trouble parsing what you are saying, too. Like
> Thomas, the only sense I can make of your description is that
> you are are describing an algorithm that goes roughly like
>
> 0 Bug is discovered
> 1 Patch is produced
> 2 IF bug is known in the Debian BTS
> 3 THEN mail patch to the Debian maintainer/BTS
> 4 ELSE publish the patch somewere, which will let the Debian
> maintainer "pull" it iff he chances to find out that
> somebody downstream from him has published a patch
> somewhere.
The problem is that you are both looking at the process in reverse. As I
explained, Ubuntu imports a subset of bugs from the Debian bug tracking
system, and those are the bugs which are relevant to the process I
described.
1. Bug is imported (usually due to release-critical severity)
2. Bug is confirmed in Ubuntu
3. Bug is fixed in Ubuntu
4. Patch is manually submitted to debbugs as a convenience to the Debian
maintainer
Patches are always published regardless of how they came to be applied, or
whether they correspond to a bug at all, via an automated process. This
process does not open bugs in debbugs (for obvious reasons).
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- mdz
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