[request-tracker-maintainers] Help patching files in dependency package

[Andrew Ruthven]

Hi Tobias,

On Tue, 2023-01-17 at 13:38 +0100, Tobias Wackenhut wrote:
> Hmm, I'm talking about the install section of the README where it
> says:
> 
> [...]
>      Install Patches
>          This is to enable searches for users with a password set.
> 
>          For RT 5 prior to 5.0.2, apply this:
> 
>              patch -p1 -d /opt/rt5 < patches/user-admin-
> callbacks.patch
> [patch files for other versions]
> [...]

Ah ha! Right, enough. The good news here is that we have RT 5.0.3 in
Debian, so the patch isn't required for our RT5 packages. There is a
patch required for RT4 though, however, we're going to remove RT4
so it won't be part of the release of Bookworm.

> If so, I think the changes in the patch files are something that
> might 
> be possible to integrate in the core rt4/5 packages as they add
> pretty 
> generic callbacks.

I was pondering how to handle it, and yes, applying the patches to our
released packages would make sense, however, see my comment just
above. ;)

> If you would be fine with that, I'd be happy if you could give me the
> opportunity try to implement a fix by myself when it is clearer what 
> would need to be done. I was hoping to make a small PR to practice :)
> . 
> So far I've only tried maintaining some packages left behind by a DD
> in 
> a private repo after they moved somewhere else and would like to take
> small steps towards the Debian project community.

That'd be very cool. And we certainly welcome assistance with the RT
packages!

You are certainly welcome to submit a MR in Salsa for request-tracker4
- https://salsa.debian.org/request-tracker-team/request-tracker4 - 
but I think that might be wasted effort given our desire to remove it
from Debian.

If you haven't already, would you like to join the pkg-request-tracker-
maintainers
mailing list? Are you using an RT deployment?

Cheers,
Andrew

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