Re: Issues in the Patch Tagging Guidelines

2023-08-18 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2023-08-16 13:22, Simon McVittie wrote: > I personally think the extent to which git has "won", both upstream and in > Debian package maintenance, means that the Patch Tagging Guidelines should > be encouraging the git-like style as primary I think this is an excellent argument. DEP-3 hails

Re: Issues in the Patch Tagging Guidelines

2023-08-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 08 Aug 2023, Guillem Jover wrote: > Lately I've been updating metadata in patches in packages I maintain and > noticed several issues with the Patch Tagging Guidelines, and after Lucas > created the new great patches UDD service [P] and we discussed some >

Re: Issues in the Patch Tagging Guidelines

2023-08-16 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 12:22:33PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I personally think the extent to which git has "won", both upstream and in > Debian package maintenance, means that the Patch Tagging Guidelines should > be encouraging the git-like style as primary, with From/Date/Subject > in a

Re: Issues in the Patch Tagging Guidelines

2023-08-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 at 12:25:13 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Here's what a git format-patch patch looks like: > > ,--- > From 9767e87d08803d78208464be3652a9231b6b08e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Guillem Jover > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:31:02 +0200 One particularly popular tool for

Re: Issues in the Patch Tagging Guidelines

2023-08-16 Thread Guillem Jover
maintain and > > noticed several issues with the Patch Tagging Guidelines, and after Lucas > > created the new great patches UDD service [P] and we discussed some > > other issues there, it looked like the guidelines could do with some > > fixes and updates. > > > &

Re: Issues in the Patch Tagging Guidelines

2023-08-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 03:42:03PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 08/08/23 at 01:25 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: - There is a requirement for the first field to appear on the first line, but git formatted patches start with «From ». That's OK, since From is an alternative to Author, so

Re: Issues in the Patch Tagging Guidelines

2023-08-10 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 08/08/23 at 01:25 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > Lately I've been updating metadata in patches in packages I maintain and > noticed several issues with the Patch Tagging Guidelines, and after Lucas > created the new great patches UDD service [P] and we discussed some

Issues in the Patch Tagging Guidelines

2023-08-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! Lately I've been updating metadata in patches in packages I maintain and noticed several issues with the Patch Tagging Guidelines, and after Lucas created the new great patches UDD service [P] and we discussed some other issues there, it looked like the guidelines could do with some fixes