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hi, this is both a request and an notice of intent that i may try to implement something :) my proposal is that the current "patches" section on a source package's qa package is modified so that the following information is somehow provided, where appropriate (depending on structure/format of source package naturally). - - entire "debian patch" - - individual quilt/dpatch patches - - individual patches from v3 (quilt) format packages - - feature-branch patches for v3 (git) format packages, if possible (would require more thinking through and i do not intend to do this initially) additionally, for each patch, when possible provide the following information: - - which version of the package introduced it - - any notes at the top of the patch - - any relevant vcs metadata - - any relevant bts metadata (could be found using heuristics in the previous items) - - html markup and standard format versions of each patch for download/review obviously not all of this could be gleaned automatically, but i imagine much of it could, and with a few heuristics the rest could be figured out. future versions could also provide a way for packagers to override such heuristics in the case of errors/false-positives. questions/comments/etc welcome sean - -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIMyAMynjLPm522B0RAn/sAJ0TgRckJm/4yDdcxcrOaEC4vcLl4QCfVKvQ lUtRYrVFQZPR6PqxxBOH+qM= =Sggx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]