On Sunday 18 May 2008, Mike Hommey wrote: --cut-- > > You don't have to check it in revision control, you just have to be able > > to generate them from revision control. > > > > For .diff.gz, we already have tools to handle such files properly > > (without duplicating their content), it's called quilt or > > simple-patch-sys of CDBS and you know it (but you don' like those). > > > > For .git.tar.gz, if you have a tool to generate the patches, it would be > > possible to hook it into the automated system that uploads patches to > > patches.debian.org. If that process is not the same across all > > .git.tar.gz, we can mandate a new debian/rules target that must generate > > a debian/patches directory with all the patches. > > Note how infrastructure needs would decrease considerably if packages > were mandated to use v3(quilt) format: patches.debian.org would be > ftp.debian.org and would just need nothing new (except for how source > packages are created)
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