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Ancient Patches

There are about 250 old patches from early development of Ubuntu whose status is unclear. Many are probably obsolete, some have been submitted to the Debian BTS but not merged yet, and so on.

For each of these patches, we will:

• Check if it is still relevant to Debian, and if it is:
• Update the patch if it no longer applies cleanly
• Attach the patch to a bug in the BTS if it is not already there
  • This is very simple using the submittodebian script
• Upload the patch to Debian where appropriate

How to help

1. Ask to join the DEX Alioth project (but go ahead and start hacking, don't wait!)
2. Install the python-matplotlib package
3. Load up the status page
4. git clone git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/dex/web.git dexweb
5. cd dexweb/ubuntu/ancient-patches
6. Edit status.txt to update the status of each patch you review. Tab-separated columns are:
   • Owner - you can set this to your name (informational only)
   • Still relevant? - yes/no
   • Debian bug number - corresponding to this issue (may or may not be the exact same patch)
   • Notes - free-form text
7. make # will download ~50M of debbugs indexes the first time
8. git commit -a
9. git push - once you have commit access

Progress

Patch status

• Summary
• Raw data

Todo list

• Get the old patch repository back online (Launchpad bug 273921)
• Set up basic workflow for tracking patch status
• Cross-reference CVEs in hopes of crossing those all off the list
• Cross-reference against BTS where a bug number is in the filename
• Check the rest manually, and file bugs for any outstanding patches
• Get any outstanding patches merged into Debian

Resources

• Repository of patches
• List of usertagged bugs in the Debian BTS related to this project