[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] patman: add distutils based installer

Otavio Salvador otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br
Tue Jul 28 19:54:21 CEST 2015


On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> On 28 July 2015 at 11:45, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> On 23 July 2015 at 03:36, Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> It could be treated the same way the git project treats gitk and
>>>> git-gui. The sources are still included in the main project and
>>>> distributed along with the rest of it but they are merged from an
>>>> external upstream where the real development happens. The upstream
>>>> project is also free to make releases on whatever schedule they
>>>> determine (although these days there isn't much development going on
>>>> in for gitk/git-gui).
>>>
>>> That sounds like a useful model. However there are so few patches to
>>> patman - is it worth it?
>>
>> Sure it is; I have asked it in past I think.
>>
>> I would like to have it in Debian, Arch and other linux distros and
>> get more people using it to manage patch series. It is hard to explain
>> it can be used for other project it being inside U-Boot source code.
>
> OK so if we do this, what's the best way to get a repo and a mailing list?

I would try github or kernel.org if possible.

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