How to handle Debian patches

[Miriam Ruiz]

2008/5/16 martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org>:
> Please Cc vcs-pkg-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org on this thread!

Done.

> also sprach Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> [2008.05.16.1654 +0100]:

>> Add to this that each patch should have some standardized header on top
>> stating:
>> - a description of the patch and its purpose
>> - the associated bug number
>> - who wrote the patch
>> - where it has been forwarded upstream
>> - sign-off by reviewers maybe
>>
>> Someone recently posted an example of this. IMO we should write a DEP
>> on patch management and standardize those headers. And probably enforce
>> their usage for patches on sensitive packages (lintian checks?).

Just for the record, I totally agree with Raphael. I guess this would
be something very useful to have and quite an improvement on the
situation.

Greetings,
Miry