From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CB41381F3 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:43:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CAC0E0D13; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:43:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B064E0CFF for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:43:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8028C33DE25 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:43:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.683 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.683 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.692, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-2.373, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id f_9fIiRBhT6p for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:43:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F102933DD3C for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:43:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UOpsN-0007Ry-F4 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:43:19 +0200 Received: from ppp118-209-51-162.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net ([118.209.51.162]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:43:19 +0200 Received: from kensington by ppp118-209-51-162.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:43:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Palimaka Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:43:03 +1000 Message-ID: References: <20130406200843.6831c4fe@pomiocik.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp118-209-51-162.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 9a5f9511-095f-4107-8395-f89dfa12b1ae X-Archives-Hash: 044aa0bffc7170dca4e31b5b119e9989 On 7/04/2013 04:22, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 6 April 2013 19:08, Michał Górny wrote: >> Hello, >> >> ... >> What are your thoughts? > > Maybe it is time to setup a patch tracking system like Debian[1]? > > Sometimes it is really hard to understand what patches are applied by > an ebuild (especially when all the > build process is handled by an eclass) and/or when people keep a > separate .tar.* with all the patches. Debian > makes is so much easier to see what patches each package contains. > > [1]http://patch-tracker.debian.org/ > > -- > Regards, > Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer > http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang > > I have always found Debian's patch tracker very useful, I would definitely support us implementing something similar.