Re: Upstreaming patches [Was: RFC: upstreaming debian/patches/exec_filename_* and the dde stuff]

[Samuel Thibault]

Zhang Cong, le Mon 07 Apr 2014 17:25:34 +0800, a écrit :
> The one who do this  need have the full plan,

I don't see why one would need a full plan.  A patch deals with just
part of the code, you don't need to know *all* the code to review the
patch, ping people about what is wrong with it, clean it, etc.

> How about we make a upstream branch and do fast iterator merge and other 
> stuff,
>  we review this branch but not the patches,  when it's OK,  merge the branch 
> to
> the main upstream branch or just use it as the main upstream branch? 

Be it a branch or patches lying in Debian package is just the same.  See
DDE, it *is* a branch already.  But if nobody works on it, well things
don't happen magically, it's as simple as that :)

Samuel