DEP3-style patch formatting

[Jelmer Vernooij]

  affects bzr-builddeb

It would be nice if bzr-builddeb had some way (extra command, "bzr diff"
format?) to generate DEP3-style patches.

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[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

How would this be used? I mean, builddeb is all about not needing to drop to patches isn't it?

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Actually there is usecase for this. You branch off upstream tag or use current working directory do edit/testbuilds to fix a bug and then you need to save this diff as patch in debian/patches. And debian/ubuntu standertised on DEP-3 such that it is easier to share patches between upstream & other distros. Info such as author, date, urls for commit and bug fixes can be easily retrieved from bzr. Imfo this smells like $ bzr log -p --format though. But because it is very debian packaging related thing it should live in bzr-builddeb.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Still waiting for Jelmer - the bug filers - feedback.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Sigh, I forgot what I meant here exactly - closing. Sorry for the overhead. I'll try to be clearer in the future so that I actually can recall what I meant myself. :-)

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

I remembered again what I wanted this for. I'd like to be able to e.g. say:

$ bzr dep3-patch -c 45 lp:bzr > debian/patches/04_fix_it

Where 04_fix_it would then contain the standard DEP3 header with as much information as possible already filled in and a -p1 diff. Things in the header that could be filled in beforehand: links to upstream bugs, list of authors, last updated time, etc.