On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:23:31AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 16:47 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > I do use darcs to track patches against upstream. I really don't > > understand the whole cdbs/dpatch/whatever thing -- why use a hack to > > manage your patches when you could use a real VC tool that does it > > better? > > A patch system can be very convenient for the people who are not the > maintainer of the package - if you fetch the source package from the > archive you get all packages neatly separated and mostly with a > description. It's then easy to extract a patch, disable a patch or add a > new one, for example when NMU'ing.
Actually, I disagree with that. I always hate having to work with a package that uses a patch management system, because then I have to learn the system before I can do any work on the package. And there are several systems. Plus it's not always quick & easy to generate a diff for an NMU out of that. And the resulting diff isn't necessarily easy to read (being a diff of a diff). > If I'm correct the source package won't display the changesets from your > VC. That is correct, per Debian policy. However, if you're just NMUing, presumably you wouldn't care about that -- you'd send me a diff, which would then become a changeset in my VC tool. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
