Tracking divergence from upstream as a bug (was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-17 Thread Ben Finney
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 | `\ ask is if they ever press charges. -- Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben

Tracking divergence from upstream as a bug (was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-17 Thread Ben Finney
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 divergences when

Tracking divergence from upstream as a bug (was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-17 Thread Ben Finney
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. Though

Re: Tracking divergence from upstream as a bug (was: divergence from upstream as a bug)

2008-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
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