Re: The PTS should list Ubuntu patches
Last Wednesday 20 July 2005 12:00, Robert Lemmen was like:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:33:02PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > well, but these patches should go into the debian BTS then. I agree with
> > Joey here that showing "oh, there is a ubuntu-patch" is not the most
> > appropriate thing.
>
> i tend to disagree. the BTS is for bugs, should they have patches or
> not. patches are some difference in how different people do things and
> are not necessarily a bug, nor is every patch wanted for debian.
>
> but it would be cool if the maintainer was aware of the patches flying
> around, so she can look through them for applicable ones and
> inspiration.
>
> so IMHO the PTS is the right place for it, but it should not be
> ubuntu-specific. for example a directory with files that contain lines
> like <package> <patch url> and that is parsed by the PTS would allow for
> different scripts that collect patches and write them into this file.
> one of these script could then just get the ubuntu info, and later we
> might add more sources.
Is
http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/
of any relevance to this discussion?
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
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