I demand that Matthew Palmer may or may not have written... > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:52:09PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: >> I demand that Matthew Palmer may or may not have written... >>> I've given up on this thread, but I just have to say one thing: >>> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:38:39AM +0300, George Danchev wrote: >>>> `Hate patch systems' can easily apply all chunks and start >>> BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! >>> Easily. Heh. You should be a comedian. >> Actually, yes, it *should* be easy: "debian/rules patch".
> I can't see any mention of that target in Policy. Am I looking at a badly > outdated version? (3.7.2.0, 2006-05-04). I'd say not :-) It seems like a reasonable "good practice" starting point to me, given that "patch" and "unpatch" targets are present if the source package uses dpatch, i.e. the rules file includes /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.make. > It also fails to work on a split-patch package I've been working on over > the weekend (just to renew my hatred of such systems). Should I be filing > a serious bug against that package? No. Wishlist at worst. The one which *I* hate is the tarball-within-tarball one: whenever I've seen that one (rarely), I've normally tried "debian/rules extract", watched it fail, read the rules file, then grumbled about apparent non-obviousness of target choice. ... actually, "debian/rules patch" fails on one package for which I recently provided a patch. But it did provide the opportunity to have a brief look at quilt... [snip] > Or are you, perhaps, taking the convention of a single patch management > system and ass-u-ming that it works across the board, when it, most > assuredly, does not? Probably... but then I'm sure that whoever came up with "unpack" as a target for extracting the files from a tarball ass-u-med that everybody else would be thinking the same way. ;-) Hee-haw, as they say. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy less and make it last longer. INDUSTRY CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING. Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise, and balance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
