Gergely Nagy schrieb am Montag, den 28. November 2011: > Alexander Wirt <formo...@debian.org> writes: > > >> > Recently [1], dpatch's maintainer uploaded a new version indicating > >> > that dpatch is now deprecated. Following that, he filed a bug [2] so > >> > that lintian might warn that dpatch's makefile has been deprecated > >> > since 2003, and that dpatch itself is now deprecated. However, he > >> > also stated that he plans to keep dpatch for wheezy. > >> > >> Just for the record, to reiterate what I have said previously[1], dpatch > >> will be kept around until it can be removed safely: when all reverse > >> build-depends have been migrated to something else. > >> > >> [1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/08/msg00380.html > >> > >> That certainly won't happen before wheezy, and is unlikely to happen for > >> wheezy+1, too. My plan still is to phase out dpatch by wheezy+2, but > >> until then, it's a legacy that should be migrated away from, and must > >> not be used for new packages. > > Since there is no proper alternative (no quilt is not) I will continue to > > use > > dpatch for all of my packages. If neccessary I would volunteer to take over > > upstream. > > I'd rather figure out what makes dpatch better than quilt for your > use-cases, and go from there. Usability. Hacks like .pc, or the hacks/patches it has for finding this directory.
Dpatch is small and simple, quilt is a beast that trickled me several times in other projects. > Nope, I'm not going only for leftover rdeps. I'll investigate the harder > cases too, where migration is either non-trivial, or it involves finding > a suitable alternative (be that quilt, something built around quilt, or > something completely different). > > I planned to do this by first getting rid of the easy ones, but if > people who prefer dpatch over other solutions step up and tell me up > front why they're happy with dpatch, and unhappy with the things I > consider alternatives, so much the better! Its simple and things like dpatch-edit-patch are just great. I now use dpatch for round 8 years and it worked every time. I don't see any reason to move away. And I still like the "never touch a running system" approach. If dpatch works without problems, why deprecate it? Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111128115457.gb3...@hawking.credativ.lan
