Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> (And then an automatic system closing any I forget to mention would be
>> nice.)
> What information would trigger such automation, in the absence of you
> noting it as such in the changelog entry?
For a patch that
On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 23:01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > Care to discuss what tags you plan to use, so an attempt at consensus
> > can be made on naming the tags for this purpose?
>
> I'm using a "divergence" usertag, with users [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (so it'l
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However, from a bug submitter point of view, I don't think I want to
> see the bug report kept open (tagged divergence) after it has
> actually been closed by a Debian-specific patch. As upstream it
> might make a fair bit of sense but as a user / bug su
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 18:43 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > However, from a bug submitter point of view, I don't think I want to
> > see the bug report kept open (tagged divergence) after it has
> > actually been closed by a Debian-specific patch. As upst
On Sun, 18 May 2008, Neil Williams wrote:
> Yes - supported by the use of (Fixed: #1234) in
> debian/changelog, .changes etc. and a revised interface for PTS and DDPO
> to discriminate between Fixed and Closed bugs.
I could easily handle this by just not archiving bugs tagged
divergence; when it's
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 18:51 +0100, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2008, Neil Williams wrote:
> > Yes - supported by the use of (Fixed: #1234) in
> > debian/changelog, .changes etc. and a revised interface for PTS and DDPO
> > to discriminate between Fixed and Closed bugs.
>
> I could easily
unted after a while.
Perhaps the tone would have been better set by describing this idea as
"Tracking divergence from upstream as a bug" in the Subject field.
--
\"When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hmm, another thought is, I sometimes have a changelog like this:
>
> * New upstream release.
> - Including my fix for foo.
> - And a better approach than my old hack to fix bar.
>
> It would be nice to be able to add bug numbers to close the
> divergen
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think that going back and collecting all the patches I've sent to
> upstreams over the years, and any I've dropped on the floor, and
> keeping it up-to-date going forward will help me maintain my
> packages better anyway, so I plan to do that this week. Th
Ben Finney wrote:
> Care to discuss what tags you plan to use, so an attempt at consensus
> can be made on naming the tags for this purpose?
I'm using a "divergence" usertag, with users [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (so it'll show up on my bugs page, and the
package's bug page -- not ide
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