[Bug 405547] [NEW] Package support - standard form of user commitment

[Imre Péntek]

Public bug reported:

Hello, first of all sorry for reporting this as a kdevelop bug, it isn't kdevelop specific, but I can't find its place. I've just read the bugreport at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdevelop/+bug/253286 and I found that there's some extensions missing to the packaging system. Let's assume there's a bug/feature/etc which could be solved by patching the source (by source, I mean the suff that gets manifested on your hard drive by issuing an apt-get source command) (and actually there's no bug what is impossible to solve by patching the source... there are bugs that have no working solution yet, but it will be also found soonly), and the patch is known but unofficial.
Maybe there are folks out who would even test those patches too, just becouse they want their applications to work NOW. The problem is there is no centralized patch collection, feedback and such things. So you should add some easy ways to patch sources with patches coming from a specific place, and the ability for users to post patches. Lets imagine this shell session:

apt-cache source kdevelop
this-ubuntu-patcher-command http://patchsite.somwhere.tld/patches/12756
... well, even this command could say that this patch couldn't be applied to that source (since it's (e.g.) a bash source patch)
and now compile the stuff as an ubuntu package

after the user tried the given patch s/he could add a review/vote to
that patch at that site, so you can see if that patch is really working,
now you saved some testing time. you can also make the patches
downoladable only for authenticated users, which would mean you can
store (and tell) how many users downloaded that patch till date, how
many voted out of that, etc. so the goal is to save your testing time
(by outsourcing the testing to the community (userbase)), so the solving
would be quicker, even the patch donator base could be broadened, it
would serve all our pleasure. Thank you.

** Affects: kdevelop (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Package support - standard form of user commitment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/405547
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