Bug#543541: RFH: quilt -- Tool to work with series of patches

[Martin Quinson <martin.quinson@loria.fr>]

Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 08:11 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Ryan Niebur wrote:
> > I'm willing to help.
> 
> Cool.

Yep, excellent. We (I) kinda need it.

> > > There is lots of work to do:
> > > - update all the patches for the new upstream version (and we have 22
> > >   patches)
> > >   Martin Quinson started this work but he has not yet pushed his work
> > >   in a public branch, hopefully that mail will remind him to do it
> > > - document all the patches and submit them upstream even if they have been
> > >   not very receptive to some of them a few years ago (in particular the
> > >   rewrite of backup-files in shell apparently)
> > 
> > I'm guessing these two should wait for Martin.
> 
> Martin, can you push what you have in a branch (say experimental)?

Well, I'm trying, but I'm in the middle of the git hell. I did my update
work on a raw directory, not in a git dir. And now that raphaël forked
the 0.46 branch under my feet, I'm falling...

Anyway, I never pushed my work anywhere because it was not working. Some
tests failed.

So, I redid my work. I reran uupdate, and redid the work of changing the
patches so that they apply to the new upstream tarball. The test suite
still don't pass, I still have to dig in to see why. Help welcomed here.

I pushed this into the 0.48 branch of the git collab-maint.

If one of you could help me with the failed tests, that would be more
than welcomed.

> > > - go through open bug reports and forward them upstream as well
> > > 
> > 
> > okay, will look at them.
> 
> Well, we should first verify that they are not fixed in the new upstream
> version... so getting some packages of 0.48 is important.

Indeed. And after the package of 0.48 is done, one big task will be to
get our changes accepted upstream. I tried a few years ago, but upstream
seemed picky about the changes. We should definitely try it again,
because we are kinda forking, which is not good.

Bye, Mt.

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