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Bug#100586: marked as done ([OLD PROPOSAL] Upstream patches should be separated from Debian ones.)



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From: David Martinez CSIC RedIRIS <david.martinez@rediris.es>
Organization: Centro de Comunicaciones CSIC/RedIRIS
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Subject: [PROPOSAL] Upstream patches should be separated from Debian ones.
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:43:21 +0200
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	Hello. If you haven't followed the discussion in debian-devel:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0106/threads.html

Quoting Theodore Tso:
> One of the reasons why I wasn't particularly happy with Debian a
> number of years ago (and recommended a large number of people not to
> use it) was when I discovered that a large number of changes were
> being made to e2fsprogs, and they were all in one single .diff file,
> so it was a real pain in the *ss to figure out what the heck was going
> on.
>
> When the .diff file gets that's big, it becomes to hard to track what
> bugs are the upstream's maintainer, and which ones were introduced by
> the Debian specific maintainer. [...]

	Well, I'd propose to make an addition to Policy and/or NM Guide:

	"Please note that in order to separate changes to the upstream sources for 
Debian-only issues and bug-fixing issues, we (strongly?) recommend to 
maintain an isolated set of patches only related to fix things not present in 
upstream sources.

	In such way, adopting an orphaned package become easier (the new maintainer 
will know very fast the changes made to the upstream sources), and the 
upstream author could know what are the changes that Debian maintainer is 
doing to the software."

	What do you think? Note the "should", not a "must".

	Sincerely,


		Ender.

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:45:26 +0200
From: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
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Hi,

this bug was set to the status "fixed" more than six month ago, so I'm
closing it now. For an announcement of this, see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2004/debian-policy-200403/msg00042.html


Cheers,
Andi
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