On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:01:27PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > > 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 > > > > They just apt-get source, hack away, and send me a diff. > > Also true for any debian patch system, but with the gain the debian specific
No, it's not, because for most of them, the "source" that you get with apt-get source is a tar.gz file and a debian/ directory. You can NOT just hack away on that like you would any package. You MUST learn the specific tool to do ANYTHING. > > They shouldn't be converting the package to use a patch system. > > They can send new patch to be included in debian/patches/, remove one, or If I am using darcs, or svn, or whatever, there is no debian/patches at all. I don't understand what you are saying here. > But you lose debian specific patches to be clearly separated from the upstrem > source (digging diff.gz for that is not fun), unless one knows where to find First, what is a "Debian-specific patch?" Isn't everything in diff.gz that? Maybe you mean just stuff in debian/. Well it's easy enough to filter that out. I think people that are NMUing packages rarely care about this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
