Am Montag, den 23.11.2009, 09:18 +0100 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: > Benjamin Drung <bdr...@ubuntu.com> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > When a new upstream version is released, I have to check all patches if > > they were accepted by upstream or not. I have to check each patch if I > > can drop it. It would make packaging new releases easier if there were > > an optional Applied-Upstream field. Every patch that was applied > > upstream can be dropped. "no" or "not-yet" would indicate that the patch > > was not applied yet. If the patch was applied, it could contain the > > revision (like "r4681") or a link to the VCS commit. > > > > What do you think about my suggestion? > > Why would the source (or VCS head) ever contain a patch that was > applied upstream? The moment the patch gets applied you simply remove > it.
Not until the next upstream release. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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