Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Up to now the only options for pulling patches from distributions derived from Debian have been Ubuntu's Debian patches repository[1] and manual downloads of source packages from derivatives. In my estimation a more general way to do this would be desirable. 1. http://patches.ubuntu.

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:50:07PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach might be > to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastructure, generalise it and > enhance it for this purpose. This will necessarily include mechanisms to > mark patches a

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM, sean finney wrote: > I think it's also worth some consideration about if/how it could be > integrated with the Debian patch-tracker service (or perhaps supercede said > service if it made more sense). > > Without thinking super hard on it it seems like it could hav

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 25/10/2011 09:50, Paul Wise wrote: > > For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach might be > to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastructure, generalise it and > enhance it for this purpose. This will necessarily include mechanisms > to mark patches as having been dealt wit

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 15:50:07 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > Up to now the only options for pulling patches from distributions > derived from Debian have been Ubuntu's Debian patches repository[1] and > manual downloads of source packages from derivatives. In my estimation a > more gene

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Karl Goetz
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:57:20 +0200 Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 25/10/2011 09:50, Paul Wise wrote: > > > > For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach > > might be to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastructure, generalise > > it and enhance it for this purpose. This will necessar

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 26.10.2011, 08:49 +1100 schrieb Karl Goetz: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:57:20 +0200 > Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > > On 25/10/2011 09:50, Paul Wise wrote: > > > > > > For the presentation side of things I am thinking one approach > > > might be to move UbuntuDiff[8] to the QA infrastruc

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: > Is there a reason to restrict this to derivatives?  I find patches from > fedora rather more interesting than ubuntu's. Fedora don't use Debian source packages so we don't have anything to debdiff against. But I guess you mean patches agai

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > I'm glad you liked it. ubuntudiff¹ was made exactly to show this kind of > data. Currently, all ubuntudiff needs to produce html pages in some file > listing source package names and associated patches. So, nothing is really > bound to patches

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > I'm glad you liked it. ubuntudiff¹ was made exactly to show this kind of > data. Currently, all ubuntudiff needs to produce html pages in some file > listing source package names and associated patches. So, nothing is really > bound to patches

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: > As a (largely) non coder, what should I look for in (say) gNewSenses > patches to know if it can be filtered out automatically? Are there any > common indicators? Anything that looks like cruft or things that the Debian maintainer does not need

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-31 Thread Karl Goetz
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:34:47 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > As a (largely) non coder, what should I look for in (say) gNewSenses > > patches to know if it can be filtered out automatically? Are there > > any common indicators? > > Anything that