On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:34, John Goerzen wrote: > 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).
How is that not true if one knows a given patch system and does know about your VCS and needs to work on one of your packages. Do they have debian/patches/ as separate file, how do I know how to update/remove/etc them ? How is that different from learning darcs patch system which might happend to be new for me. There is also git arch which also pretend to be a patch system at heart. Thus the diversity is the same as in different patch system / not necessary a bat thing though /. > > 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 -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
