George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > 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? > > Right, but you have parts which touch upstream files (debian/patches/*), and > parts which does not (debian/!patches). I prefer them to be clearly separated > when the whole debian source package is unpacked.
Not only that. Many packages make changes to upstream files that are Debian-specific (e.g. for using infrastructure or libraries that don't exist outside), but also changes to upstream files that will/should be temporary because upstream will apply the same patch, has been asked to, or the patch has been taken from their development version. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
