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<H1>[Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1</H1>
<B>Antoine Pitrou</B>
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<I>Wed Jan 11 20:19:46 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:33:41 -0500
Juan Luis Baptiste <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">juancho at mageia.org</A>>
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><i> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Antoine Pitrou <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">solipsis at pitrou.net</A>> wrote:
</I>><i> > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:43:35 -0500
</I>><i> > But how do you choose which patches you want to backport from the
</I>><i> > stream of bugfixes done by upstream?
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</I>><i> Because normally a single commit fixes a single bug and the commit
</I>><i> message says it clearly, so it's easy to spot the fixes.
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</I>><i> > Should the packager monitor all
</I>><i> > bug fixing activity? (sure (s)he *can*, but that's a lot of work)
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</I>><i> No we don't need to, we just need to look for the fix we are
</I>><i> interested in as I described before.
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Uh, you have a hard time understanding a question don't you?
I specifically asked *how* you come to be interested in a particular
fix, rather than all of them.
So, again, do you monitor all commits or is there another heuristic you
apply to avoid that O(n) process?
Regards
Antoine.
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