On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Brian Wolfe wrote: > > Where upstream is inactive or unresponsive things are a little > > different, of course. > > Yup, this is the situation that I was attempting to describe, when > upstream seems to be ignoring the package, debian can then take on some of the > smaller patches that fix functionality that is broken (such as the grafting > ability. pretty important in making iso images IMHO>) If the maintainer had > a way of keeping track of small patches via some method(cvs maybe?) then they > could peel them back off once the offical patch made it's way back to them > from upstream months (years even? *shudder*) later.
dbs(doogie build system, debian build system) See autofs, apache, x(contains a pre-alpha version of dbs). Do NOT see glibc, gcc. Those use dpatch, which was around before dbs. Dbs has a larger following(but well under 100 packages use it).
