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Re: divergence from upstream as a bug



On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 03:55:12PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> One of the wishlist features for the BTS that I've been contemplating
> setting up is a "summary" feature, whre the current summary of a bug
> is shown at the top, with the history continuing below.
> 
> This could be easily extended to having patch messages nominate
> themselves as the summary message.

How I'm reading the latter paragraph is that patch messages are
*alternative* as some non-patch summary message, am I wrong? I think the
two should be orthogonal: you can have or not a summary message, you can
have or not a patch.

But still this does not solve another problem we have with patch
management in the BTS: they are sometimes inlined, while sometimes the
are attached. Can't we fix attachment as the required format for
patches? (e.g. forcing an attachment if one wants to add +patch or
something similar). This + the forthcoming ability above to identify
*the* latest patch will give us the ability to automatically extract
patches from bug reports.

Cheers.

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