[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#805314: Bug#805314: kbd: new upstream release

Michael Schutte michi at debian.org
Mon Nov 30 20:43:51 UTC 2015


Hey again Andreas,

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:35:17PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Please feel free to beat me to the uploading part if you feel like
> uploading sooner ("gbp dch --auto && dch -r" still pending to prepare
> the changelog for upload).

No hurry from my side!

> >   * The patch you added is straight from git-format-patch, which makes
> >     its name and header format inconsistent with the others.  I would
> >     suggest stripping the "0001-" prefix, using underscores and a .diff
> >     extension, and patch tagging according to DEP 3, as I have done for
> >     the other patches.
> 
> Yeah, inconsistency isn't very nice. OTOH I'd prefer to spend as little
> time as possible on reorganizing cherry-picks from upstream as they
> are highly temporary and will go away as soon as the next upstream
> release is out. Also, git format-patch style is DEP3 compliant as well!
> 
> How about this middle ground:
> [...]
> The above means that after a "gbp pq import && gbp pq export && gbp pq drop"
> the patch numbers will be gone, but also all the previous
> debian/patches/*.diff will be renamed (based on their Subject: + .patch)
> as well as have some additional meta-headers added by gbp pq.
>
> Does that sound ok to you or do you still prefer manual tweaking?

Yup, that sounds just fine -- doesn't matter which way round it is
consistent :-)

Cheers,
Michael



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