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Re: Practical solutions to: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs



On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:19:50PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
> Roberto C. Sánchez, 2008-02-22 08:33:17 -0500 :
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 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.
> 
Yes, those features would be a Godsend to me.  I am certain that they
would be to others as well.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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