Don't export patches for simple rebuild

[Raphaël Hertzog]

Ubuntu sometime rebuilds packages (to get linked with newer version of libraries, or to get updated dependencies, etc.). An example is synfig_0.61.07-1build1. However those upload do not contain anything relevant for the corresponding Debian maintainers... thus patches for those cases should not be listed in http://patches.ubuntu.com/PATCHES otherwise they get listed in the PTS and the maintainer will want to check what patch Ubuntu has and will be uselessly disappointed.

See http://bugs.debian.org/462470 for the original discussion.

[Adrien Cunin (adri2000)]

Hi,
I already reported that to Scott who didn't consider it really as a bug. The rationale was that some buildX uploads actually contain something beyond the changelog entry. This is AFAIK wrong and people doing that should stop, so that we can safely exclude these packages from the patches list.

[Adrien Cunin (adri2000)]

See rev. 123 of my branch for a proposed fix.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

See bug #195070 for a related solution.

[Paul Wise (Debian) (pabs)]

This seems to be fixed now.

[Adrien Cunin (adri2000)]

This bug is *not* fixed. The patch is still not included.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Could you separate the fix from your development branch to a branch on its own that can be trivially merged?

[Adrien Cunin (adri2000)]

What about
  bzr merge -r 123 lp:~adri2000/merge-o-matic/dev
or
  bzr merge -r 122..123 lp:~adri2000/merge-o-matic/dev
?

The first one would include rev. 122 as well which contains some minor changes.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

122 includes a change that's arguably controversial and doesn't fix this bug.

-c 123 would be a cherry pick, and I'd rather avoid that

[Adrien Cunin (adri2000)]

Done.
Indeed it seems bzr is not capable of keeping the commit messages when cherry-picking one or multiple revisions from a branch, but only when merging all the branch or up to revision X of the branch. So I cherry-picked the fix in a new branch, and manually copied the informations from my original commit in the commit message...

About rev 122, what do you find controversial? (this is a bit out of topic for this bug, maybe we should talk about that somewhere else)

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Merged and pushed

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

This bug report says "Fix Released", but I can still see build1 patches in the list. Something wrong?

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Any old patches will still be there.