Bug#582038: qa.debian.org: [PTS] Please link to UbuntuDiff
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 09:29:00AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Have you considered renaming it to derivs.d.n, generating the same
> info for other Debian derivatives and then feeding all that into UDD?
> That would mean that the ubuntu section on the PTS could be renamed to
> "Derivatives".
This is kind of a recurrent argument, emerged for the first time when
the Ubuntu box got added to the PTS. I completely agree with you in
principle; still, it is kind of pointless to rename
s/Ubuntu/Derivatives/ while we only have that for Ubuntu. By all means,
all derivatives are encouraged to do something similar, but most of them
don't even have a BTS in the first place. The day some other derivatives
will come to us with a BTS, diffs, and a patch flow, that would be IMO
the right moment to generalize the thing (possibly even proposing a
standard format to expose data for Debian, etc.).
Doing that before seems like overengineering to me (unless you claim
that doing that can actually *encourage* other derivatives to do the
same, but I'm personally a bit skeptical on that).
Cheers.
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