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Re: Patch format



On Sun, 18 May 2008 19:37:53 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Tille wrote:

> On Sun, 18 May 2008, David Paleino wrote:
> 
> >>  Author: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
> >> -Forwared: Not yet
> >> +Forwared: Mon, 19 May 2008 04:01:11 +0900
> >> --- a/purge/Makefile
> >> +++ b/purge/Makefile
> >>  @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> >
> > Charles, I'm not a DD, so I'm asking to you (and Andreas, and Nelson, and
> > $DD) to do a proposal on -devel :)
> 
> You ask what?? Well, We could perfectly do this, but why do you assume that
> only DDs can issue proposals????

Well... bad habit? :)

> > Can we standardize the patch header? Be it quilt, dpatch, $foo, the header
> > might be something like:
> >
> > Author:
> > Forwarded:
> > Description:
> >
> > I'm currently starting to use this format:
> >
> > Author: Foo Bar <foo@bar.com>
> > Forwarded: no | http://$url_of_upstream_BTS_with_patch
> > Reason: foo
> > another line
> > .
> > Another paragraph
> 
> So try rather:
> 
> Reason: foo
>   another line
>   .
>   Another paragraph

I believe my MUA ripped off those spaces :)
(yes, I meant to do it RFC822-compliant)

> > Do you (all) believe that would be a good idea? :)
> 
> I don't care whether _all_ people believe something.

Sorry, that "(all)" was meaning "Charles, Andreas and others", not all in
absolute sense :)

Kindly,
David

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