Dear developpers, following the discussion on patch systems and standardisation, here is the wishlist but I sent to the cdbs package. (#466259)
I hope that it can lead to some progress… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy ----- Forwarded message from Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:37:31 +0900 From: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: cdbs: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules. X-Mailer: reportbug 3.31 Package: cdbs Version: 0.4.48 Severity: wishlist Le Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:32:42PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Here is a summary of the targets used by the different makefile > includes available to the developpers: > > File Package To patch To > depatch > /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.make dpatch patch unpatch > /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make quilt patch unpatch > /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk quilt apply-patches > reverse-patches > /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk cdbs apply-patches > reverse-patches > /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/dpatch.mk cdbs apply-dpatches > deapply-dpatches Dear CDBS hackers, Two weeks ago I have contacted the mainainers of the three most popular patch systems in Debian, to ask them their opinion about the standardisation of the name of the targets they use in the includes they provide for debian/rules makefiles. I have got an answer from the quilt maintainers, saying that they will follow the conclusions of the discussion, and the opinions expressed on debian-devel are supporting the idea of using patch and unpatch as target names. Since it is the name already used in dpatch, and since the quilt maintainers agreed to modify /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk if needed, the most straightforward way to reach standardisation would be if you would change /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk and /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/dpatch.mk to support the use of 'patch' and 'unpatch' instead of 'apply-patches', 'apply-dpatches', 'reverse-patches' and 'deapply-dpatches'. The direct benefit of such a standardisation would be that in most cases, when a 'debian/patches' directory exists, there would be an obvious command to try for applying the patches, that would work in most of the cases. I do not know enough the internals of CDBS to evaluate if my request would be easy to implement, but in any case, feedback would be most welcome, to know if this is an open issue or not. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-Med packaging team Wakō, Saitama, Japan ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
