Andreas Tille wrote:
> What would you suggest to enhance the situation?
Each maintainer may be familiar with his pet patch system, but for
archive wide work I agree the current approach is a mess and makes
security updates painful. Since it's unlikely to change anytime soon,
each source packages, which uses something else than a plain diff.gz
(which can be fixed transparently), should be mandated to have a
/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/README.NMU, which describes how to deal with
the relevant patch system, especially:
- Through which hoops do I have to jump to create a patch? (dpatch e.g.
is horribly counter-intuitive)
- Do I need to register the patch in 00list or another obscure place
or are all patches in debian/patches applied?
- If I have to patch a file, which is patched in an already existing
patch, how can I get a clean state to diff against?
(For dpatch and quilt this could be solved by adding a symlink to a
standard file provided.)
Cheers,
Moritz
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