[Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu patches as RSS feeds

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:56:47PM +0200, Adriaan Peeters wrote:
> > My apologies if this question has been raised in the past, but are  
> > 'rebranding' patches filtered out yet? On both the qa.d.o page as the  
> > rss feed? Filtering these out would really help to make sure DD's/ 
> > DM's see these Ubuntu patches as useful and won't just discard them.
> 
> There is some filtering from Ubuntu's side (the hunks are split by some
> heuristics), and slightly more from Utnubu's side (packages with only
> modifications to control and changelog are filtered into its own group).
> Nothing is yet in place for ignoring pure rebrandings, though, TTBOMK.

And even for rebranding, sometimes the best to do is to setup a special
infrastructure for that so that all derivatives can rebrand easily: this
has been done inside d-i and it could be done on some other packages as
well.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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