[changed mailing list from debian-project to debian-devel because I'd regard it a debian-devel topic]
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
I think: http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/a_problem_with_tools/ is a big one that deserves attention. It's been a low-level grumble for quite some time in various places, but it's getting louder. It's a difficult problem in that it's a balance between tools that make DDs more productive and the ease of treating Debian packages in a uniform manner.
I completely agree that this topic deservers attention and thus I would like to start a discussion here. IMHO there is a need for putting patches against upstream source into a defeult place. The rationale behind this is that if you are using VCS for your packaging to enable effective group maintainance it makes no sense to store a complete tarball but just the patches. For instance in the Debian-Med project http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/ we agreed to store only the debian directory into SVN and have a get-orig-source target in the debian/rules file. To store the patches in the debian directory and apply them later dpatch and quilt are widely used tools and I don't know a better solution. What would you suggest to enhance the situation? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
