debian patches

[Faheem Mitha]

On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:04:14 +0200, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
> On 07/02/2010 11:22 AM, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There are some patches here from the Mercurial Debian maintainers.
>>
>> http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/python-apps/packages/mercurial/trunk/debian/patches/
>>
>>
>> Maybe someone could take a look at the ones labelled upstream, and see
>> which could be reasonably merged? Maybe glance at the deb_specific ones
>> too. For example, deb_specific__mergetools looks quite innocuous.
>
> The best way to do that would be if the Debian maintainers sent all the 
> patches to the mailing list as a patch queue and with proper comments 
> about why each of the patches should be upstreamed or why they need it 
> anyway. That would ensure proper review and useful comments and tell us 
> which problems the Debian packagers are facing.

Sure. I don't speak for the Debian maintainers, but most of these
patches look pretty small and harmless, and could be evaluated on
their merits.

                                                  Regards, Faheem.