[Desktop13.04-Topic] Reduce patch burden

[Iain Lane]

Hi,

A lot of our packages are patched over upstream. Each of these comes
with a maintenance cost and is also a source of bugs and frustration
(quilt patches aren't the easiest things in the world to work with).

I think we should systematically look at our patches and re-evaluate for
each one

  - Whether it is really (still) necessary — if not, drop
  - If we can forward upstream if not already or if we can help
    its upstream inclusion along
  - Who is going to maintain the patch in the distro if it needs to be
    kept as a local patch — desktop, PS, …

It would be good if we could use something like DEP5 headers for all
patches, including adding them to existing patches. It's sometimes
really quite difficult to figure out what a particular patch is for,
whether it is upstream and so on.

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/attachments/20121016/f31ab8cc/attachment.pgp>