Strawman: eliminating debdiffs

[Reinhard Tartler]

Michael Bienia <michael at vorlon.ping.de> writes:

> What do you propose for patches that upstream doesn't like (e.g.
> upstream doesn't like the proposed solution (e.g. prefers a rewrite) or
> the patch is too specific on Ubuntu, etc.) but is still needed for
> Ubuntu?

At minimum I expect the patch documentation to contain a pointer to that
discussion. It might be valid or not, but a fellow developer in general
needs to know about that discussion when he needs to touch that work.

> An other issue is how do you plan to track which bugs got closed by new
> upstream version?

With a note in the patch metadata and/or the referenced bug comments.

If a patch doesn't apply any longer or is unnecessary, you need some way
to verify if and how the bug has been dealt upstream, no?

> I'm pretty sure that there are bugs in LP which can be closed because
> a new version fixed it but are still open because nobody noticed.

This is not a new problem with this proposal. You need to check all bugs
individually, I don't see a way how this can be automated. Ideally, all
those bugs are forwarded and linked upstream, I'd think.

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