[Mageia-dev] Putting meta-information in Mageia patches

Sat Feb 11 18:41:46 CET 2012

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:
+  http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
+
+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:
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669872
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669873
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669875
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669876
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669877
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669878
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669879
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669882
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669881 (wontfixed)
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669883 (fixed differently in master)
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669874
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669897
+http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13254
+http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13255
+http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13256
+
+also committed a few string formatting fixes.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+