About forwarding bugs and patches to Debian and documenting your changes

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Wed Jun 18 03:10:16 BST 2008


On Tuesday 17 June 2008 21:11, Nicolas Valcarcel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net>

> > There's a wiki page on
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PatchTaggingGuidelines about
> > basically the same thing (it documents the changes in the patches, which
> > is not suitable if the changes are made directly in the source, without
> > using a patch system), but that policy doesn't seem to be in widespread
> > use, unfortunately.
>
> I didn't knew about that page and i'm sure a lot of people doesn't know
> also, are you interested on helping me dive into wiki pages to write a
> complete document with all of them and then try to spread the word about
> it/them? Did someone want to help?

We have https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributingToDebian that would presumably be 
the right place to start.

Scott K



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