About forwarding bugs and patches to Debian and documenting your changes

[Nicolas Valcarcel]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 01:25 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:44:56AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > For example, instead of:
> > +  * debian/control: add missing libxext-dev build-dependency (fixes FTBFS).
> > You could write:
> > +  * debian/control: add missing libxext-dev b-dep. See
> > +    http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Changes/libext-dev
> > +    Should be merged in Debian.
> 
> For this last line, something terser would be preferrable and easier to
> synthetically parse (i.e. something that won't be likely to word-wrap).

Yes, but we lucas isn't saying "Do it that way" just giving some
recommendations to get into a "policy" or "good practices" document so
the relations between ubuntu and any upstream will improve.

> Bryce
> 

I'm working on a wiki page about good practices [1]. Feel free to add
whatever you want, but keep in mind that this must be a general upstream
collaboration guide, not just debian.

1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoodPractices

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