Re: How to send revision patches to old issues in DEBBUGS so Guix QA can look at them?

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Andy,

Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:

> Hi, per Chris's recent comments, Guix QA only looks at (a window of)
> recently created issues due to storage space limitations, which is
> understandable.
>
> However, if I have update (package definition) patches to not very
> recent issues, such as some stale issues sitting there for some time,
> Guix QA does not pick these revisions up.  Then these revisions will
> not be reviewed and would not be merged.
>
> Ideally, Guix QA should look at recent patch submissions to the
> guix-patches mailing list but not sure if that is easy to implement.
>
> Then what is the best way to make recent patches to old issues covered
> by Guix QA?  I tried to create new issues and then merge old issues
> into the new ones but that is probably not a good way to go or good
> thing to do.

After rebasing the old series locally, you can send it to the *same bug
ID* with a bumped version (e.g. git send-email -v2
... --to=NNNNN@debbugs.gnu.org).

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim