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Can we use a better term for updates than "patches"? #1596

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Conan-Kudo opened this issue Nov 15, 2019 · 0 comments
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Can we use a better term for updates than "patches"? #1596

Conan-Kudo opened this issue Nov 15, 2019 · 0 comments

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The term "patches" used to refer to updates with updateinfo data is confusing, especially in the context of packages and packaging where "patches" refers to literal out of band modifications to the code for the purpose of improving the code shipped in the package.

I know that SUSE distributions have erroneously referred to these as "patches" even after the transition from PatchRPMs and patchinfo to DeltaRPMs and updateinfo, but RH/Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. do not because the overload of the term is too confusing.

Can we please use a better term in Uyuni? Spacewalk historically used the term "Errata"/"Erratum", but there may be a better term to use.

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