Patches for trivial bugs sitting in bugzilla -> trivial patch policy?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Jun 27 15:55:41 UTC 2014


On 06/27/2014 05:17 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 10:05:31AM +0200, Dan HorĂ¡k wrote:
>
>> oh, that's an impressive list, but I would like see to one more thing
>> there - links to upstream bug reports where relevant (eg. fixing
>> configure stuff), because we usually need them fixed in upstreams too
>
> Yes, I missed this as well. Also IIRC the guidelines demand an patch
> status comment for each patch in the spec file, so just adding patch
> without noting why it is not upstreamable or information about when/how
> it was upstreamed is bad and should IMHO not be done by provenpackagers.

As in many cases before, I once more have to disagree with you, because 
this approach is not applicable in many cases nor helpful to Fedora and 
its users.

Ralf



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