Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs
Roberto C. Sánchez, 2008-02-22 08:33:17 -0500 :
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> Now, if I could run an 'apt-get source -t unstable foo' and create
> my patch against the resulting source package, and be sure that the
> maintainer won't reject it on the grounds of the patch not being
> against the head (or latest, or whatever) of whichever $DVCS they
> happen to be using, then things would be a little better.
I believe that's exactly what debcheckout(1) is for.
As for generating the patch, maybe debcommit(1) could be extended to
provide a --diff-only option that would just output a patch rather
than try to actually commit. And while we're at it, maybe there could
be a debcheckout --update option that would update the working copy to
the current state of the repository.
(JoeyH, Zack -- *hint*, *hint* ;-)
Roland.
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