BTS has these features, but we need a separate patch tracker [LWN.net]

BTS has these features, but we need a separate patch tracker

Posted May 21, 2008 3:01 UTC (Wed) by midg3t (guest, #30998)
In reply to: Debian contemplates patch management by iabervon
Parent article: Debian contemplates patch management

For bug reports in the Debian bug tracker that are to do with the upstream code there are the forwarded (for the upstream bug URI) and fixed-upstream tags, as well as state on whether it is fixed in the Debian package (fixed).

The bug tracker should not be used instead of a patch tracker, it should be used with a patch tracker. The bug lists for some packages (like linux-2.6) are already almost impenetrable. While every patch should have a bug entry either upstream or in the Debian bug tracker, nobody wants to have to trawl the list of bugs to find out exactly what patches are being applied. That's what a patch tracker is for.

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