Patch Tagging Guidelines standardized in Debian as DEP3

[Robert Buchholz]

Hi Raphael,

On Friday 19 June 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> I'd like to bring to your attention an ongoing discussion in Debian.
> I drafted a Debian Enhancement Proposal (DEP) to formalize a set of
> meta-information that should be embedded in patches that we apply to
> our packages.
>
> I drafted the proposal so that it's relatively vendor-agnostic and
> can be reused by other distributions. Feel free to participate in the
> discussion if you have ideas of improvements that would allow you to
> also reuse the format.
>
> Check out the discussion here:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/06/msg00458.html
>
> And the current draft is here:
> http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/

Thanks for drafting that document and bringing attention to it. At 
Gentoo, we discussed standards for *filenames* of patches before and it 
failed horribly. There were two or three incompatible approaches, and 
distinct groups favoring one or the other.

I believe putting information into the patch header is the way to go, 
and since a lot of patches are shared back and forth between distros, 
unifying these standards can be of much help. If we were to adapt this 
standard, it would have to be discussed in our developer community as 
well. What is your timeline for inclusion of comments in the document 
and making it final? It would be sad if you finalized the document a 
week from now, someone proposes it to gentoo-dev afterwards, we end up 
doing our own thing that is incompatible, and both Gentoo and Debian 
devs have to run sed over all patches for the next years.


Robert
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