Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated
On 2004-07-07 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:29:44PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote:
> > The description from kernel-patch-debian and kernel-image does not
> > list which patches are contained in the Debian diff. That way it's
> > pretty hard to evaluate which benefits are already provided by using the
> > debian kernel package compared to going vanilla (and patching in what
> > you need apart from vanilla).
> Currently README.Debian in kernel-source has an incomplete list. I
> talked to Jens about this and we can't see anything in Policy mandating
> that at all, so we plan to remove that aswell. With the .dpatch
> ification you can easily check in the source for yourself, all the
> .dpatches have proper descriptions.
[...]
If you are using dpatch there is a simple, automatic solution. Check
the contents of patch-stamp after dpatch has run. - It contains the
list of applied patches and there respective "#DP: ..."-descriptions.
Ship it in the debs and Kilian's wish is implemented.
cu andreas
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