From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to "backport" a fix?
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:26:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160818182618.GB20943@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57B5D32E.1050702@crazy-compilers.com>
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 05:24:30PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks to Marius Bakke's tip django test run fine now -- except of two.
> These are errors in the test-case which have been fixed just after the
> release.
>
> What is the proper way to handle this? Include this fix as a patch? As a
> snippet to the source? Or should I disable the two tests?
If there are upstream patches that fix broken tests, then I think we
should try taking those patches from upstream and applying them in the
(source) field of the package.
The patch files we use should include a brief comment explaining what
they do (the upstream commit message might suffice) and a link to their
source.
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2016-08-18 15:24 How to "backport" a fix? Hartmut Goebel
2016-08-18 18:26 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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