[Mageia-dev] Putting meta-information in Mageia patches

[Florian Hubold]

Am 11.02.2012 18:41, schrieb Olav Vitters:
>
> It provides the following standard headers (quoting):
> - Description or Subject (required)
> - Origin (required except if Author is present)
> - Bug-<Vendor> or Bug (optional)
> - Forwarded (optional)
>   Any value other than "no" or "not-needed" means that the patch has
>   been forwarded upstream. Ideally the value is an URL proving that it
>   has been forwarded and where one can find more information about its
>   inclusion status.
> - Author or From (optional)
> - Reviewed-by or Acked-by (optional)
> - Last-Update (optional)
> - Applied-Upstream (optional)
>   This field can be used to document the fact that the patch has been
>   applied upstream. It may contain the upstream version expected to
>   contain this patch, or the URL or commit identifier of the upstream
>   commit (with commit identifiers prefixed with "commit:", as in the
>   Origin field), or both separated by a comma and a space.
>
>
> This specification basically does everything that I need and more.
>
> Is some kind of patch-tracking or meta-information used in Mageia?
One of our policies needs this partly, too:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/KDE4_packaging_policy#Patch_policy