On Sat, 17 May 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 16/05/08 at 17:54 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > In the general case, I do believe that the new source package format "3.0 > > (quilt)" will help as all Debian specific changes will always end up in > > debian/patches/. > > If I understand things correctly (but I'm really not sure I do), 3.0 > (quilt) won't really help with that: it won't prevent maintainers to > directly modify files outside of debian/ , and generate a huge > debian/patches/debian-changes-version.diff.
Yes but: 1/ you usually don't modify many files for many unrelated change in the same upload 2/ that process is rather meant for NMU 3/ we can have a lintian warning to discourage this practice if we think the maintainer should better rename the patch and > It seems to me that what we need to do is decide that using dpatch or > quilt is the way to go (with properly commenting individual patches). > It's a social problem, not a technical one. Oh sure, but the standardization that v3 quilt can bring will help a lot. > Should we wait for the switch to the new source format to create > patches.debian.org? It sounds like a better idea to write it in a way > that makes it work with both format 1.0 and 3.0 (quilt). Maybe work from > the extract source... I don't want to stop anyone... feel free to start right now. :-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
