Hi,
small update:
Am Montag, den 24.06.2013, 14:31 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
For the file format, the smallest increment from what we have now would be to leave packages.txt as simple as it is and change patches to this format: .../patches/<pkg>/<version>/<patchname> and a text file .../patches/<pkg>/<version>/series which lists <pathname>’s per line. This has the advantages that if different distros want a different selection of patches, only the series file needs to differ. Furthermore this format happens to coincide with the patch management tool "quilt". The patches may carry meta-data, see http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ for a useful specification. Especially the "Forwarded" field will be useful, as we don’t want to bug the author three times for each bug :-)
this is now implemented: http://anonscm.debian.org/darcs/pkg-haskell/tools/all-packages/patches has the complete patches against the cabal directory.
I guess the next step would be to make first use of this data, e.g. in the form of a continuous integration job on Hydra, as dangled by Peter.
On the Debian side I guess we could need some tool support that helps us to keep the patches in the source packages and the patches in all-packages directory in sync.
Greetings, Joachim
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Joachim Breitner