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patch-tracking.debian.net

Skrivet av Sean Finney den 2008-09-09 | 0 Kommentarer

Taggar: debian, free and open source software

way back in june there were some discussions on the debian-devel mailing lists about more effectively visualizing the changes made by debian developers to the packaged software distributed in debian.

the idea was that there should be a way for not just debian developers, but also users and upstream authors to review all the changes made to the "pristine" original version.  ideally this should be provided in a way that does not require knowledge of debian-specific tools, version control systems, or methodology.  over the next couple weeks i hacked out a small python based system that did just this, which went online just before i left for vacation.  some example links:

home page:
  http://patch-tracking.debian.net

currently tracked versions of the php5 package:
  http://patch-tracking.debian.net/package/php5

extended information for php5 version 5.2.6-3:
  http://patch-tracking.debian.net/package/php5/5.2.6-3

viewing a specific patch in the cacti package:
  http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/series/view/cacti/0.8.7b-2.1/01_config.php.patch

there's still a few bugs lurking in it, and a long list of "oh hey, X would be cool" (bug tracker integration, commenting, etc) features, but it's useful enough that people are already referring to it on teh internets.