Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Reducing number of patches in our packages

2011-04-21 Thread Ted Gould
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 17:18 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 10:12 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Rodrigo Moya rodrigo.m...@canonical.com wrote: How would this affect application authors, would they need to go update again? what do

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Reducing number of patches in our packages

2011-04-07 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Rodrigo Moya rodrigo.m...@canonical.com wrote: [...] So, for next cycle, I would suggest a small goal of trying to do patch upstreaming/cleaning days, maybe once a week or every 2 weeks. Great idea :) Also, some Ubuntu-specific patches, like the appindicators

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Reducing number of patches in our packages

2011-04-07 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 08:30 -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Rodrigo Moya rodrigo.m...@canonical.com wrote: [...] So, for next cycle, I would suggest a small goal of trying to do patch upstreaming/cleaning days, maybe once a week or every 2 weeks.

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Reducing number of patches in our packages

2011-04-07 Thread Robert Ancell
On 04/07/2011 09:23 PM, Rodrigo Moya wrote: Priority: medium? While working on the GNOME3 PPA during this cycle, I found we have a lot of patches in many packages, which makes things harder when upgrading to major versions, and also introduces new ways for the apps to fail, as the fixes are

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Reducing number of patches in our packages

2011-04-07 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Also, some Ubuntu-specific patches, like the appindicators ones are duplicated in lots of packages, so it would be good if we could find a better way to make upstream apps use them, like, for instance, patching gtk_status_icon_* in GTK itself to use the indicators when available, instead of