On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:32:28AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:09:44AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Well if someone has to work on a "which of the applied patch broken > > the package is such a way" kinda issue, he will have to, in order to > > have access to the patches. > > No, they are all in the diff.gz, and that's easy enough to find. >
The total of changes is in the diff.gz, but obviously in a combined fashion. That is: if you have applied multiple patches for different issues on the same file, how will you extract a certain patch from that .... impossible. So, as a matter of fact, in diff.gz you loose information that you can keep in separately shipped patches. Just having the diff.gz can be a major PITA for security maintenance ... for instance, if you try to track down a regression that you know nothing about other than that it appeared somewhere between now and the beginning of life. - Alexander -- GPG messages preferred. | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Alexander Sack | : :' : The universal [EMAIL PROTECTED] | `. `' Operating System http://www.asoftsite.org/ | `- http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
