Hi, small update: Am Montag, den 24.06.2013, 14:31 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: > For the file format, the smallest increment from what we have now would > be to leave packages.txt as simple as it is and change patches to this > format: > .../patches/<pkg>/<version>/<patchname> > and a text file > .../patches/<pkg>/<version>/series > which lists <pathname>’s per line. This has the advantages that if > different distros want a different selection of patches, only the series > file needs to differ. Furthermore this format happens to coincide with > the patch management tool "quilt". The patches may carry meta-data, see > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ for a useful specification. Especially > the "Forwarded" field will be useful, as we don’t want to bug the author > three times for each bug :-) this is now implemented: http://anonscm.debian.org/darcs/pkg-haskell/tools/all-packages/patches has the complete patches against the cabal directory. I guess the next step would be to make first use of this data, e.g. in the form of a continuous integration job on Hydra, as dangled by Peter. On the Debian side I guess we could need some tool support that helps us to keep the patches in the source packages and the patches in all-packages directory in sync. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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