On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:10:42PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 04:35:24PM +0000, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 05:23:16PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 03:44:20PM +0000, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > I???d be glad if we could standardize on quilt. It is the only one to > > > > > be > > > > > both simple and powerful, and I know very few people unhappy with it. > > > > > Other patch systems I have tried (dpatch, dbs and simple-patchsys) > > > > > have > > > > > all serious flaws that end up hitting you on non-trivial packages. > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > would you mind telling us an example where simple-patchsys breaks? Or > > > > is this more cdbs making things complicated for any non-vanilla use? > > > > > > For example when you need different series of patches per > > > architecture (the libc e.g. has specific hurd patches). > > > > OTOH, if you'd want patches to be integrated upstream, they'd need not > > be architecture specific (in the sense that it would make other > > architecture fail to build or have broken code). > > Well, for the patches in question, we're not really sure of the > implications on the other archs, but hurd needs it. Though I'm not 100% > the patch I'm thinking about is still here. > > Also another less diputable feature, is that you can disable a patch > and not drop it from debian/patches. The series (or 00list for the > matter) is _really_ a feature. > > And when you have lots of patches (more than 10 I'd say), you > sometimes have to reorder them, or deal with patches that conflicts > together, and quilt-refresh is a feature that is most wanted, and you > can't do that in simple-patchsys. In fact, simple-patchsys does not > gives any feature except the patch/unpatch targets. quilt is a complete > solution that gives you patch/unpatch, but really gives you tools to > update your patches with as little pain as possible. And AFAICT, dpatch > doesn't provide such facilities, but that may have changed.
FWIW, dpatch has a patch edition facility (and I think it's been there since near the beginning), but it was a PITA to use on big source trees. I don't know if that changed. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
