CI patches that are not in series file QA

[Harald Sitter]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Monday, April 13, 2015 06:32:48 PM Harald Sitter wrote:
>> Another alohas
>>
>> While working on our patch parser today I noticed that there is a
>> rather unfortunately large amount of patches that get removed from the
>> series file but not from git (not until someone notices that they are
>> unused anyway).
>> So, I just deployed an all new QA measure checking for that and
>> turning CI builds unstable where the contents of patches/ doesn't add
>> up with what is listed in patches/series.
>>
>> Random note: since genuine upstream patches do get removed from CI
>> branches they would potentially still dangle in a landing branch (e.g.
>> kubuntu_vivid_archvie) if not removed correctly. This situation would
>> however ultimately auto-resolve when whatever currently used landing
>> branch gets a CI branch merged (i.e. the upstream branch would then
>> definitely be removed).
>
> I'm not sure if it's relevant to this or not, but there at least used to be
> patches that were for Debian only and not Kubuntu that we'd remove from
> series, but leave it the patches directory to keep the diff smaller/more
> readable.  Even if this isn't the case for Kf5/Plasma5 yet, I'd guess it will
> be in the future, so we ought to figure out what to do about it.

Good point indeed. I think a very simple approach to this would  be to
simply consider commented out patches in series as fulfilling the
requirement. As long as the patches are not entirely removed from
series but only commented out it is still obvious that they are not
used but at least documented as not being used.

Unfortunately I fear that simply removing the patch from git (which
really is the simplest solution) isn't possible as debian would
eventually merge one of our branches and that would then also remove
the patch for debian, so that won't be too efficient.

HS