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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Putting meta-information in Mageia patches</H1>
<B>Olav Vitters</B>
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<I>Sat Feb 11 18:41:46 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>Hello,
I'm busy filing upstream bugs for every patch in packages which source
is hosted on ftp.gnome.org.
There are 300 of such patches... and it is getting difficult to keep
track of what I've filed and the status and so on. This as some patches
have already been upstreamed, some have been taken from upstream, some
have been implemented differently, etc.
I'd like to add some meta-information to each of the 300 patches to make
it easier for me to determine if the patch has been submitted upstream
or not.
Some patches will always be Mageia specific, I want to store that in the
meta-information as well.
Quickly looking into how to store this meta-information, I found that
Debian and Ubuntu have a specification for it:
<A HREF="http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/">http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/</A>
It provides the following standard headers (quoting):
- Description or Subject (required)
- Origin (required except if Author is present)
- Bug-<Vendor> or Bug (optional)
- Forwarded (optional)
Any value other than "no" or "not-needed" means that the patch has
been forwarded upstream. Ideally the value is an URL proving that it
has been forwarded and where one can find more information about its
inclusion status.
- Author or From (optional)
- Reviewed-by or Acked-by (optional)
- Last-Update (optional)
- Applied-Upstream (optional)
This field can be used to document the fact that the patch has been
applied upstream. It may contain the upstream version expected to
contain this patch, or the URL or commit identifier of the upstream
commit (with commit identifiers prefixed with "commit:", as in the
Origin field), or both separated by a comma and a space.
This specification basically does everything that I need and more.
Is some kind of patch-tracking or meta-information used in Mageia?
If not, do people agree that this Debian/Ubuntu specification is a good
idea?
I'd like everyone to agree, because I'm filing bugs no matter whom the
maintainer is. I will add the meta-information to patches where I am not
the maintainer if people agree on above specification.
FYI
List of bugs filed atm:
<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669872">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669872</A>
<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669873">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669873</A>
<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669875">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669875</A>
<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669876">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669876</A>
<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669877">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669877</A>
<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669878">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669878</A>
<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669879">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669879</A>
<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669882">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669882</A>
<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669881">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669881</A> (wontfixed)
<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669883">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669883</A> (fixed differently in master)
<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669874">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669874</A>
<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669897">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669897</A>
<A HREF="http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13254">http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13254</A>
<A HREF="http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13255">http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13255</A>
<A HREF="http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13256">http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13256</A>
also committed a few string formatting fixes.
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Regards,
Olav
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