On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 12:20 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, August 30, 2019 12:05:45 PM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > > This lets you generate the patches for people on demand, but they aren't > > just sitting out there for anyone to look at whenever they want. > > > > I suppose it could be provided as an automated service that publishes the > > results, but that would be a piece of infrastructure someone has to run. > > > > Anyway, this is probably only applicable to a minority of upstreams and > > packages, and more upstreams these days would just like all patches as > > PRs. > > It's not particularly rare for me to poke through other distros package > patches when I'm trying to figure out how to solve a problem. I suspect I'm > not the only one. I think having explicit patches available is a really good > thing for cross-distro collaboration (in addition to upstream collaboration). > > Scott K
I'll second that looking through patches a distro has supplied can be very useful. It's very convenient to have explicit patches you can just check quickly to see if it could solve an issue or not.
