patch reorganization
Hi folks
debian/patches of linux-2.6 is currently a flat structure, where it is
not really easy to see, what a patch affects.
To make it maybe a little easier I propose a functional structure like
- bugfix/
Bugfixes or backports. I'm not really happy with that.
- all/
- $arch/
- debian/
Debian specific patches like the version definition.
- features/
Complete new things.
- all/
- $feature/
If the feature needs too many patches, like vserver and xen.
- $arch/
- security/
Only security fixes.
- all/, $arch/
Maybe this can be dropped.
- upstream/
- all/
For upstream updates like the stable kernel releases.
- $arch/
Optional, for arches like m68k and hppa with seperate upstream.
To make the life for stable updates easier, which often needs a large
bunch of updates, it may be possible to add support for wildcards in the
series definitions which can be used like
| + security/23etch1/*
to apply all patches in that directory.
Bastian
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