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Re: Using a patch naming convention



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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:05:18PM -0600, Rene Mayorga wrote:
>Working on some other teams I notice a nice and interesting naming
>convention to patch names[0]
>
>The idea is to stand a status of the patch using a name convention, with
>status I mean:
> 1) Patch is Debian specific and there is no need to send it to upstream
> 2) Patch needs to be send to upstream
> 3) Patch is already sent, and needs to be removed on the next release if is
>    included.

I use the following, slightly different, rule:

0xxx: Grabbed from upstream development.
1xxx: Possibly relevant for upstream adoption.
2xxx: Only relevant for official Debian release.

With that logic, there's a greater chance that when low-ordered patches 
are later dropped due to being includd upstream, the later patches might 
not need unfuzzing.


  - Jonas

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