Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > For some reason I forgot that a bug isn't automatically closed when > it's marked fixed in all existing branches. As long as the new > changelog/changes "command" (Fixes:/Patches:) causes the bug to be > marked fixed but not closed, we're fine. We don'

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-06-21 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On fredagen den 13 juni 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > The downside is that a bug can't simply be downgraded from fixed to > > patched; it would have to be marked found and patched in the same > > version, but that's hopefully a relatively rare situatio

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-06-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > The downside is that a bug can't simply be downgraded from fixed to > patched; it would have to be marked found and patched in the same > version, but that's hopefully a relatively rare situation. Why do we need to track which revisions have divergence

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-06-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On måndagen den 19 maj 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > My point is: We don't want to change version-tracking to track this > "Fixes" notion in addition to the "Closes" notion. Version-tracking is > complex enough already. It shouldn't have to become more complex. We could simply run the same algori

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.05.18.0401 +0100]: >> I won't speak for Joey, but I consider a divergence a bug in the sense >> that I'd use with a general bug-tracking system: it's something about >> the package and/or the packaged

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.05.17.2238 +0100]: > If you grab a patch from upstream that you know will be in a future > upstream release, the divergence is temporary. You can choose not to > file a bug report in our BTS about it, knowing that it will clear up. ... and suddenly t

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.05.18.0401 +0100]: > I won't speak for Joey, but I consider a divergence a bug in the sense > that I'd use with a general bug-tracking system: it's something about the > package and/or the packaged software that, in an ideal world, would be > impro

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The only non trivial design issue is that it should be possible to > mark some of the patches as denoting the "current patch state" Presumably the most recent patch is the current one; that's what I'm actually going to do for summaries. Don Armstr

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:28:45AM +0100, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Fair enough, but why are you referring to a _set_ of patches? > > There may just be one current patch, but having access to the previous > patches and/or attachments which describe the problem easily is > useful. Whether debbugs di

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-20 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 07:48:55AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Try to git-format-patch (or whatever tool applies for the particular > > DVCS) each feature branch, see whether they apply cleanly by > > luck/accident. If so, store them as a 3.0

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 07:50:10AM +, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > >TTBOMK emacs does too. > > Emacs is currently evaluating debbugs. Well, then my point stands, debbugs _is_ also a sane BTS for reporting bugs :) -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 09:02:21AM +0100, Don Armstrong wrote: > > The idea was that a patch, since it would actually contain the > > resolution of the original problem, would be the correct place to > > summarize the problem. However, on thinking ab

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 09:02:21AM +0100, Don Armstrong wrote: > The idea was that a patch, since it would actually contain the > resolution of the original problem, would be the correct place to > summarize the problem. However, on thinking about it more, I think > that having a single summary, wi

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > How I'm reading the latter paragraph is that patch messages are > *alternative* as some non-patch summary message, am I wrong? I think > the two should be orthogonal: you can have or not a summary message, > you can have or not a patch. The idea was

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >TTBOMK emacs does too. Emacs is currently evaluating debbugs. Don Armstrong -- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ http://www.donarmstr

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:59:51AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> 2) feature branches >> >> Each feature branche is based on upstream (with few exceptions) and >> contains all changes for one feature. >> >> Then you have an integration branche w

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:40:09PM +, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:24:13AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > You're describing a situation where upstream is difficult or impossible > > > to communicate with. I can't solve that, nor can anyone except upstream. > > >

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 03:55:12PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > One of the wishlist features for the BTS that I've been contemplating > setting up is a "summary" feature, whre the current summary of a bug > is shown at the top, with the history continuing below. > > This could be easily extended

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:17:09AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > That would be very nice. I think you could easily make giant > improvements by reworking the bug listing pages. They would be much more > useful with a table listing all bugs with one bug per line, color > indicators for the severi

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:24:13AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > You're describing a situation where upstream is difficult or impossible > > to communicate with. I can't solve that, nor can anyone except upstream. > > Except that once again, upstream that would benefit from our system > the

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:59:51AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > 2) feature branches > > Each feature branche is based on upstream (with few exceptions) and > contains all changes for one feature. > > Then you have an integration branche where all feature branches are > merged. The merging

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > The diff.gz contains all the changes including the debian dir. It is > > by no means obvious if there are patches in there or not. > > I think reading a debian diff is the every day job of DD and DAs. And

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 19/05/08 at 09:09 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Fix-Debian-Bug: 5 > > I think that: > Fixes: http://bugs.debian.org/5 > is better. The patch might fix a problem not reported in Debian. For > example, the Debian maintainer might monitor

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/05/08 at 09:09 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Fix-Debian-Bug: 5 I think that: Fixes: http://bugs.debian.org/5 is better. The patch might fix a problem not reported in Debian. For example, the Debian maintainer might monitor Ubuntu's bug tracker, see a bug reported there, and fix i

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/05/08 at 08:48 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > and update the corresponding bug report, and it doesn't work with > > version-tracking, which would need to be updated have 3 notions: > > - notfound (already exist) > > ??? > > > - fixed usin

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Two additional changes could be made as well, to help with the process: > 1) add parsing for Closes-with-patch: in changelog. This closes the >bug normally, and also tags the bug + divergence. sounds >non-disruptive. This should actually probabl

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/05/08 at 09:14 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > 'morning Neil and everybody. So many mails to read for breakfast! > > Le Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:51:18PM +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > > proposal: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (Fixes: #nnn) > > marks the bug as fixed by a patch added by De

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > Even simpler: Fixes: #nnn downgrades the severity to wishlist, adds "To > be merged upstream:" to the subject, and sends a message saying "This > bug has been fixed by patching the original sources; we will forward > this patch to the upstream authors an

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080518 16:09]: >> The quilt extension is certainly a big improvement and will hopefully >> unify a lot of patch system using packages after lenny. > > Though I guess there still needs to be a way to get su

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 18/05/08 at 15:55 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Esspecially when you have debian specific patches where things are a >> clear divergence there won't be an upstream record. > > If there's a patch that is not going to be useful outside of Debia

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The proposal is about tracking the required patches in the BTS. Should have said tracking the state of patches. Didn't mean the patches verbatim. > No, the bug is about classifying "divergence from ups

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: --cut-- > | $ md5sum dist* > | 7417436d2d0cbe9322d7503041c2e2df [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | b959d34e40b01303e98a6b85255dd92d dist_3.70.orig.tar.gz > | $ mkdir 1 2 > | $ tar -C 1 -xzf [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | $ tar -C 2 -xzf dist_3.70.orig.tar.gz > | $ diff -urN

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Charles Plessy
'morning Neil and everybody. So many mails to read for breakfast! Le Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:51:18PM +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > proposal: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (Fixes: #nnn) > marks the bug as fixed by a patch added by Debian and > awaiting a new release upstream to be finally

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 05:19:28PM +, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 04:11:09PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > 1/ check bts-link is aware of your upstream BTS (means that there is a > > small configuration step to do once and for all) and that the kind > > of BTS i

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Niko Tyni
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 04:11:09PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > 1/ check bts-link is aware of your upstream BTS (means that there is a > small configuration step to do once and for all) and that the kind > of BTS it uses it supported. RT isn't. Launchpad should be Uh, rt.cpan.org s

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 06:57:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > In that case, it really doesn't matter whether the list of Debian > patches is on patches.debian.org, or on a page in the BTS. If upstream > wants to, they can look at them either way. Sure it matters, for example for other Debian mainta

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 07:53:39PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Sunday 18 May 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Isn't this already the case in practice? Do you really see many Debian > > packages that have modified *.orig.tar.gz tarballs? And if so, have you > > filed bugs? > Sorry for the delay

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: --cut-- > Isn't this already the case in practice? Do you really see many Debian > packages that have modified *.orig.tar.gz tarballs? And if so, have you > filed bugs? Sorry for the delay, but now I saw that Don Armstrong also asked such a question,

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You seem to forgot that people will actually work with the source > > code and actual patches applied to it, not with a bunch of patches > > floating in Debian BTS with not so clear/predictable state > > (appl

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080518 16:50]: > "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think adding a website which nicely formats those files (with > > diffstats, and properly showing included patch files) would be a thing > > that really helps all involved people. Not only upst

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > The diff.gz contains all the changes including the debian dir. It is > by no means obvious if there are patches in there or not. I think reading a debian diff is the every day job of DD and DAs. And all of them learned to search for +++ and ignore debian

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080518 16:09]: > The diff.gz contains all the changes including the debian dir. It is > by no means obvious if there are patches in there or not. The limit to a single file is a real problem. But at least the information has to be in there, and a .diff i

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:30 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 1 - User reports bug with a patch against upstream code > > [open, patch] > > 2 - maintainer forwards the patch upstream > > [confirmed, patch, upstream, forwarded] > > 3 - mai

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Russ Allbery
"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080518 15:28]: >> I don't think this is as universally true as it looks on first glance. >> Often the reason why the divergence remains a divergence is because >> it's a quick hack that only works on (for example)

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:07:04PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > A saner solution would be to only use the BTS when it's not possible > to discuss the patch with upstream. We could do the following: > > - add pseudo-headers in the patches for: > + URL of the bug

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 18/05/08 at 15:55 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 17/05/08 at 17:01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > >> What if we just decide that changes made to upstream sources[1] qualify > >> as a bug? A change might be a bug in upstream, or in the debiani

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:18:12PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > But the problem we want to solve is making things easier for > upstreams. Oh? When I read the proposal, I understood that the problem we want to solve is about tracking changes we make to upstream. If upstream wants those changes

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 04:11:09PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > IOW basically, just do your usual workflow, bts-link adds 0 overhead > on your work, that's exactly why it's valuable. Huh? This is just as true for the proposal we're discussing here, which you seem to claim gives too much over

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 18/05/2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > oh boy, are we really "fighting" over a dupe of a mail ? wasting 4k of > data and two keystrokes ? (in mutt, D~=\n will remove dupes, kmail has > the same functionnality, and most decent MUA do to). CoC is meant to > reduce rudeness, not technical issues from

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080518 15:28]: > > Except that it has an important scope problem. Divergences with the > > Debian package are not open bugs in Debian, they are open bugs in > > upstream that are localy fixed within Debian. > > I don't think this is as universally true as it look

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:11:09PM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > of BTS it uses it supported. RT isn't. Launchpad should be > supported since yesterday thanks to Jelmer Vernooij, sf.net is Okay #417692 shows that it's a bit flaky atm, but it should be fixed quite soon :) -- ·O·

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:49:36PM +, Russ Allbery wrote: > Yes, there is bts-link -- I don't know how well it works having never > been lucky enough to have an upstream with a tracker that it support, so > far as I can tell. Or maybe I just don't know how to use it? My > upstreams use RT, al

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have already such a place. It's called the .diff.gz. It's linked > everywhere, on every mirror in the same directory as the software. > This file is there to contain and show what is changed. > Admitted, the original one file diff is not perfect

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:19:28PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:39:07AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >> On Sat, 17 May 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > >> > >> >... glibc without patches can't work. > >> > >> Isn't

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080518 15:17]: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:44:49PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > I'd suggest to start with making pristine upstream tarballs (or pure > > subsets of those) obligatory. No modifications allowed in there and no > > exceptions. > > How would y

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:37:53PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:03:17PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Do you have a proposal for a remplacement of the glibc then? > > > And note we *do* forward patches we apply to the Debian Glibc, which is > > not always something ple

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 17/05/08 at 17:01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> What if we just decide that changes made to upstream sources[1] qualify >> as a bug? A change might be a bug in upstream, or in the debianisation, >> or in Debian for requiring the change. But just call it

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> And note we *do* forward patches we apply to the Debian Glibc, which is >> not always something pleasant to do, especially when it concerns >> "embedded crap" [1]: at best your patch is ignored, at wor

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't have enough experience using the BTS to interact with upstream > to comment on this, but I'll watch the responses of others (who do have > such experience) with interest. You basically can't, currently, use the BTS to interact with upstream, only n

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [tracking divergence from upstream as a bug in the Debian BTS is] > additional work. That's creepy and uninteresting work to begin with, > its useless with proper upstreams, and is needed only for bad > upstreams, that won't eve take a glance at all th

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:26:20PM +, Ben Finney wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FFS let's do not a mua and m-f-t wars. Set your MFT and my MUA will > > honour that. > > What I've requested is laid out in the Debian mailing list code of > conduct as behaviour to be

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The proposal is about tracking the required patches in the BTS. No, the bug is about classifying "divergence from upstream" as a bug to be tracked in the Debian BTS. The location of patches isn't a necessary part of the proposal. Patches in the

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 09:40 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > What if we just decide that changes made to upstream sources[1] qualify >> > as a bug? A change might be a bug in upstream, or in the debiani

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Russ Allbery
"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080517 23:01]: >> What if we just decide that changes made to upstream sources[1] qualify >> as a bug? A change might be a bug in upstream, or in the debianisation, >> or in Debian for requiring the change. But just

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:14:09PM +, Ben Finney wrote: > George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You wil have hard time teaching every upstream in Debian BTS (new) > > tags and features, but they all already know how to deal well > > prepared diffs from debian ftp mirrors. > > I've gon

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FFS let's do not a mua and m-f-t wars. Set your MFT and my MUA will > honour that. What I've requested is laid out in the Debian mailing list code of conduct as behaviour to be expected in the absence of explicit requests. A Mail-Followup-To field set

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, as a side thought, we could have tools that give list of bugs > tagged divergence which are not forwarded and as the task of forwarding > those is not really difficult when the patch is well commented, we could > have many contributors helping us

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:39:07AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >> On Sat, 17 May 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> >> >... glibc without patches can't work. >> >> Isn't this the best support for Joey's proposal? >> A software which does not work without

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:24:10AM +, Ben Finney wrote: > Pierre, please fix your MUA to honour the request I made earlier: stop > sending individual copies of messages that you also send to the Debian > lists. It's a request in the mailing list guidelines, and I've > explicitly pointed it out

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:44:49PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > I'd suggest to start with making pristine upstream tarballs (or pure > subsets of those) obligatory. No modifications allowed in there and no > exceptions. How would you define "no modifications"? Even a subset already implies mod

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You seem to forgot that people will actually work with the source > code and actual patches applied to it, not with a bunch of patches > floating in Debian BTS with not so clear/predictable state > (applied/unapplied/blamed/whatever). Such a service to

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080517 23:01]: > What if we just decide that changes made to upstream sources[1] qualify > as a bug? A change might be a bug in upstream, or in the debianisation, > or in Debian for requiring the change. But just call it a bug. > Everything else follows from that qu

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > Again, the BTS is not "yet another place"; it's already a place where > Debian-specific information needs to be about other changes to the > package. It's a proposal to *consolidate* information into a place > that already has much similar information for

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 17 May 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > The state of a bug being a divergence can just be one step in the > life-cycle of a bug. > > Consider a new bug filed one a package, which turns out to be an > upstream bug, is forwarded upstream, gets patched in Debian, and then > has the patch forward

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:03:17PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Do you have a proposal for a remplacement of the glibc then? > And note we *do* forward patches we apply to the Debian Glibc, which is > not always something pleasant to do, especially when it concerns > "embedded crap" [1]: at best

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 18/05/08 at 19:57 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > As I understand it, the proposal is to put *new* information (that > > Debian source diverges, and exactly why) into an existing location > > that is already a place we expect upstream to know about (the

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
Pierre, please fix your MUA to honour the request I made earlier: stop sending individual copies of messages that you also send to the Debian lists. It's a request in the mailing list guidelines, and I've explicitly pointed it out earlier. Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 18/05/08 at 19:57 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > As I understand it, the proposal is to put *new* information (that > Debian source diverges, and exactly why) into an existing location > that is already a place we expect upstream to know about (the Debian > BTS) Huh? Upstreams knowing about the Deb

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Mike Hommey a écrit : > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:03:17PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:39:07AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> On Sat, 17 May 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >>> ... glibc without patches can't work. >>> Isn't this the best support for Joey's proposa

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:03:17PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:39:07AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Sat, 17 May 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > >... glibc without patches can't work. > > > > Isn't this the best support for Joey's proposal? > > A software wh

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 17/05/08 at 17:01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > What if we just decide that changes made to upstream sources[1] qualify > as a bug? A change might be a bug in upstream, or in the debianisation, > or in Debian for requiring the change. But just call it a bug. > Everything else follows from that quite

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:57:02AM +, Ben Finney wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:26:12AM +, Ben Finney wrote: > > > So it's already the case that they have a certain number of places > > > to look, *including* the Debian BTS if the work

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:39:07AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > >... glibc without patches can't work. > > Isn't this the best support for Joey's proposal? > A software which does not work without patches is IMHO buggy. Do you have a proposal for a

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:26:12AM +, Ben Finney wrote: > > So it's already the case that they have a certain number of places > > to look, *including* the Debian BTS if the work is packaged for > > Debian. I don't see that this proposal changes th

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > Please follow http://www.debian.org/MailingLists#codeofconduct> > and avoid sending messages individually to someone when the message is > also sent to the list, unless they ask for it. > > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, May 18, 20

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:26:12AM +, Ben Finney wrote: > Please follow http://www.debian.org/MailingLists#codeofconduct> > and avoid sending messages individually to someone when the message is > also sent to the list, unless they ask for it. … > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
Please follow http://www.debian.org/MailingLists#codeofconduct> and avoid sending messages individually to someone when the message is also sent to the list, unless they ask for it. Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:01:19AM +, Ben Finney wrote: > > The D

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:01:19AM +, Ben Finney wrote: > George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I strongly believe that [...] there is no any urgent need for more > > infrastrucre enhancements and yet another places to look at (like > > teaching BTS/PTS of doing additional DD-upstre

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, May 18, 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > (This discussion is similar to the one about DEPs vs BTS bugs -- a > discussion on the BTS would always miss a "summary".) I didn't follow this discussion, but it strikes me that many bug trackers have a summary for bugs. -- Loïc Minier -- To UN

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 07:39:07AM +, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > >... glibc without patches can't work. > > Isn't this the best support for Joey's proposal? > A software which does not work without patches is IMHO buggy. > Despite the technical fact

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, May 17, 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > > If I grab an upstream change from their VCS, I wont open a > > Debian bug about it; if I find a bug in the Debian version which also > > applies to upstream, I might skip to directly reporting it upstream, > > and only there. > > If you grab a patch fr

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Joey Hess wrote: FWIW, I like the general idea of tracking upstream diverge with a bug. > Mike Hommey wrote: >> The BTS would also need something to make it easier to spot patches in a >> bug. Patch tracking is one of the few things bugzilla is not bad at, for >> instance. > > I guess you're talk

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 09:40 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What if we just decide that changes made to upstream sources[1] qualify > > as a bug? A change might be a bug in upstream, or in the debianisation, > > or in Debian for requiring the change

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I strongly believe that [...] there is no any urgent need for more > > infrastrucre enhancements and yet another places to look at (like > > teaching BTS/PTS of doing additional DD-upstream communication > > p

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 18 May 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: That would be very nice. I think you could easily make giant improvements by reworking the bug listing pages. They would be much more useful with a table listing all bugs with one bug per line, color indicators for the severity, and a column on the le

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What if we just decide that changes made to upstream sources[1] qualify > as a bug? A change might be a bug in upstream, or in the debianisation, > or in Debian for requiring the change. But just call it a bug. > Everything else follows from that quite natur

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: ... glibc without patches can't work. Isn't this the best support for Joey's proposal? A software which does not work without patches is IMHO buggy. Despite the technical fact in this specific case it also forces divergences between distributions - w

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-17 Thread Ben Finney
George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I strongly believe that [...] there is no any urgent need for more > infrastrucre enhancements and yet another places to look at (like > teaching BTS/PTS of doing additional DD-upstream communication > processing which brings even more complexity to the

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-17 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 18 May 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > What if we just decide that changes made to upstream sources[1] qualify > as a bug? A change might be a bug in upstream, or in the debianisation, > or in Debian for requiring the change. But just call it a bug. > Everything else follows from that quite natu

Re: divergence from upstream as a bug

2008-05-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Filipus Klutiero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure whether you mean bug in the strict sense or in the BTS's > sense. Do you think a divergence is a minor bug or a wishlist "bug"? I > disagree that any divergence is a bug, but there may be a request to get > rid of a divergence. I won't s

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