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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:22:59
Message-Id: CAG2jQ8gkWYKbdA-U1XrF=Ffq7kbDeMfe-1wm-+0CdpRi+EHKAQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean by "Michał Górny"
1 On 6 April 2013 19:08, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > ...
5 > What are your thoughts?
6
7 Maybe it is time to setup a patch tracking system like Debian[1]?
8
9 Sometimes it is really hard to understand what patches are applied by
10 an ebuild (especially when all the
11 build process is handled by an eclass) and/or when people keep a
12 separate .tar.* with all the patches. Debian
13 makes is so much easier to see what patches each package contains.
14
15 [1]http://patch-tracker.debian.org/
16
17 --
18 Regards,
19 Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
20 http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang

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