Hi folks,
I'm maintaining patches with fixes for dozens of packages for
quite some time. These patches are needed since releases are
often quite broken (ie. crosscompiling doesn't work) or there
are other things which make sysop's or distro maintainer's
life evrything but easy.
Most of the patches are just (little) fixes to get the packages
built properly or provide a finer build configuration. I had to
learn that such things tend to require quite a long time to
get into the upstream.
So I'm maintaining a repository of patches which is directly used
by my distro builder (I've got my own buildsystem a little bit
like emerge, but specialized on building for foreign systems
using sysroot'ed crosscompiling, etc, mainly for embedded systems)
Since many distros maintain their own patch repositories and
ivest mucht work in QM each by their own, I'd like to get these
efforts merged to one great OpenSource QM project.
The idea behind is:
+ Each individual release of a certain package is inspected
by its own.
+ The OSS-QM provides patches (hotfixes) for each individual
release, if necessary.
+ We've got several quality stamps, which an (maybe patched)
release can get, ie.
* clean builds
* clean installations
* relocation capabilities (ie. GNU's or FHS style)
* optimization capabilities (ie. can proper CFLAGS be passed ?)
* stability (open bugs ? unsolved problems ? ...)
...
I've written down some lines about this project in my wiki:
http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce
Maybe someone here's interested in it ?
cu
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