On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:56:45AM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> [2011-11-29 03:33]: > > All of these can be dealt with by rewriting the patch so that it is > > acceptable to upstream and applied and released by them. > > Care to explain how conditional per-target-distribution patches should > be bushed upstream? Think of patches requried for debian/sid, > debian/squeeze-backports, ubuntu/Oneric Ocelot and ubuntu/Lucid Lynx > when it comes to build dependencies.
You can always make the patch conditional on an environment variable or similar and set that in debian/rules according to the target distribution. It's a small rewrite, but not that much, and it can often be less confusing when you're finished. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- 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/20111129101109.gb19...@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk
