On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:40, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > If Debian treated our upstreams this way, I'd be suprised if we ever got > > any patches accepted upstream. > > Debian does, in fact, treat most of its upstreams precisely this way. > Debian publishes a large portion of its changes primarily in the form of > monolithic diffs relative to upstream source. The last time I saw figures, > the usage of dpatch, cdbs, etc. was rising, but not yet the standard > operating procedure.
Speaking only for myself, I never do this. IME monolithic diffs are almost always not applied by upstream, splitting diffs into the smallest possible functional units with a full explanation of what they do is the best way to make sure the patch is applied by upstream. I do not use dpatch or cdbs, just patchutils and a text editor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
