Patch pilot report and feedback

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Donnerstag, den 03.02.2011, 09:14 +1100 schrieb Martin Pool:
> On 3 February 2011 08:22, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 02.02.2011, 22:57 +0200 schrieb Jani Monoses:
> >> * Bzr usage confusion
> >>
> >> I was only familiar with 'debdiff against latest source package' type of
> >> uploading on behalf of another dev, so it took me a while to figure out
> >> how to make the same change to both bzr and the package making sure not
> >> to accidentally introduce a delta however small. The number of more than
> >> one official sounding branch name in some projects (ubuntu/totem vs
> >> desktop-team/totem IIRC) just caused me to have a few failed attempts at
> >> merging.
> >
> > Did you try sponsor-patch from ubuntu-dev-tools?
> 
> Thanks for suggesting that.
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/CodeReviews> says
> 
> >>> You may find the sponsor-patch (from ubuntu-dev-tools package) program helpful.
> 
> but not much more.  Could you explain it a bit more, bdrung?

The tools downloads a patch / branch for a given LP bug number, does
some sanity checks, builds the package, create some diffs, and let's you
upload the package. More details can be found in the man page.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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