Debian and Ubuntu now use the same patch tagging guidelines

[jairo mayorga]

Will add g.hn and wifidirect standards?
Thanks

2009/11/5 Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>:
> Hello Ubuntu developers,
>
> We have long had a policy for adding standard meta information to
> patches that we apply to Ubuntu, to make it easier to track their
> origin, upstream status, etc.
>
> Debian now introduced a new policy proposal which has the same spirit,
> but a slightly different format (mainly to stay compatible with
> git-formatted patches):
>
>  http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
>
> After a discussion on ubuntu-devel[1], it now turns out that the
> Debian proposal is stable enough to become widely adopted. Thus our
> own policy for this [2] now by and large is just a pointer to DEP-3.
>
> So it would be nice if from now on we could migrate to that new format
> over time. This is of course neither urgent, nor bound to a particular
> release.
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Martin
>
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-September/029212.html
> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PatchTaggingGuidelines
>
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