On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 08:14:52AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > I disagree. Look at dpatch. It had executable patches since the > beginning, and a standardised script from 2.0 onwards.
One problem with executable patches was the fact you couldn't reason about the packaging without first executing them, in the general case, which was frowned upon by security-concious people who like automated package testing tools. Does that not apply here? -- Jon Dowland -- 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/20111208101158.GB22474@pris