Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines
On 19/06/09 at 10:49 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > My concern is that Ubuntu already has a policy like this
> > (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PatchTaggingGuidelines). I
> > would really like ours to be compatible with theirs, so patches can
> > freely be copied between Ubuntu and Debian. Having a different format
> > sounds like a very bad idea. Have you tried contacting the people
> > involved in the Ubuntu policy? It might be possible to change it.
>
> I did not contact them yet. I expect that they will follow the outcome of
> this DEP otherwise they would have to patch lintian to support the
> differing field and it seems counter-productive.
That sounds like a pretty bad way to force them to make changes to an
existing policy.
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