Re: [PATCH] Introduce a description of the Backport and Fixes tags

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Pau Monne writes ("Re: [PATCH] Introduce a description of the Backport 
and Fixes tags"):
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 07:49:15PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > > +When possible, please use the Fixes tag instead (or in addition).
> > 
> > Do we have any code to turn Fixes: into a list of commits to
> > backport to a particular stable branch ?
> 
> I think we should have one of those, I've attempted something like:

Cool :-).

> > If not it might be easier to ask people to add both Backport: and
> > Fixes:.
> 
> I would like to avoid that, a Fixes tag should be enough for us to
> figure out where the patch should be applied.

OK.  Let us start using these tags as defined in Stefano's patch and
we can debug the script when we have some test data :-).

> #!/bin/sh -e

I tried to avoid reading your script but I couldn't help glancing at
the first line and

  #!/bin/sh
  set -e

is better because then

  bash -x script

isn't a bomb.

> The script could also likely be cleaned up and improved, it's quite
> ugly...

We can put it in-tree and then people can send patches...

Ian.