On 16/06/11 07:03, Bryce Harrington wrote:
There's now support in launchpad for displaying source package diffs
between what's in ubuntu oneiric and what's in debian sid. Check it out:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+localpackagediffs
This is an outcome of the Launchpad team's current 'Derived Distros'
development focus. The primary objective is to make life easier from
people making derivatives of Ubuntu such as OEMs, but since Ubuntu
itself is a derivative of Debian, it looks like this is going to win us
some nifty new functionality too. This includes a comment area to allow
packagers to mark merges they're working on or leave notes for other
packagers, buttons to make it easier to sync one or more packages
straight from debian, and functionality for derived distros to push
their changes back up to us more easily.
For more info on what's in the plans, see:
https://dev.launchpad.net/LEP/DerivativeDistributions
https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+bugs?field.tag=derivation
Bryce
Hi Bryce,
This is a great new feature, and certainly a step in the right
direction. I see this as really good news, so thanks for sharing it
with us.
I'd like to make a few suggestions, to make this more useful to my workflow:
* Ability to diff legacy source packages ubuntu/debian delta.
- There have been multiple occasions where I have have dget'd the
sid source package from snapshot.debian.org and created a debdiff from a
prior ubuntu merge to /really/ see what the delta is. The current
autogenerated diff per source package doesn't cut it for merges, as it
includes the Debian changes. I want to view just what the merge delta was.
* Being able to filter by subscribed packages for a given team or user.
- The https://bugs.launchpad.net/~LPID/+packagebugs
- This allows a given user or group to keep an idea of where the
packages differ from sid. Especially useful for a team or user to be
able to monitor the core of packages that they need to deliver.
* Should probably be able to also see the package sets, and possibly
filter by.
* Being able to easily see the debian/changelog entries for version >
ubuntu current version.
- This allows to quickly see how important the changes are.
* The new page should probably indicate the sponsor of the Ubuntu upload
(if present).
* I wonder if this feature set will be exposed by the API? :)
To date, i have been maintaining a cron'ed list[0] of packages where
Debian is a higher version than Ubuntu for packages ~ubuntu-server is
subscribed to, and the ubuntu-server package set. I have found it most
useful, I hope Launchpad will be able to superseed my list and make it
more useful.
[0] http://people.ubuntu.com/~davewalker/server-sid-new.txt
Thanks again!
Kind Regards,
Dave Walker
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