On 16/06/09 at 17:18 +0200, sean finney wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:27:45PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > (possibly fixed by the patch). The `Bug` field is reserved > > > for the bug URL(s) in the upstream bug tracker. > > > > What about using Debian: (like Ubuntu's Patch Tagging Guidelines) to > > indicate which Debian bug is fixed by this patch? > > Debian: could be considered a shorthand alias for Bug-Debian maybe? I > guess that could also address the above issue that i mentioned.
Let's not add aliases for the tag names now, please :-) > > I Think that there's one field missing: DebianSpecific. This field would > > indicate why the patch is Debian-specific, and should not be forwarded > > upstream. > > i think something like this would be useful as well. i'll throw a > suggestion out there: > > * `Debian-Specific` (optional) > > Is this patch a debian-specific patch that is not intended to be > shared with upstream? For example, changes to specify Debian-specific > application paths, configuration file locations, etc. The rationale for using DebianSpecific (instead of Debian-Specific) is that Ubuntu uses UbuntuSpecific, not Ubuntu-Specific. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
