Patch Tagging Guidelines (aka DEP3) -- Adopting in Ubuntu?

[James Westby]

On Wed Sep 23 23:43:29 +0100 2009 Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> many of us have added metadata to Ubuntu package patches for a while
> now, following
> 
>   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PatchTaggingGuidelines
> 
> This was discussed a while ago with Debian, and now resulted in a
> similar proposal for Debian (see below). Debian's proposal is not
> vendor-specific (like our's), and also more flexible.
> 
> I'd like to update our PatchTaggingGuidelines to refer to the DEP3
> now, and give some updated Ubuntu examples.

The last developer news on debian-devel-announce included a message
about the changes being made for compatibility with git, so I think
now would be a good time to make the switch in Ubuntu.

Are there any other objections still outstanding?

Thanks,

James