On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 01:14:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> writes: > > (a) Diffs are not made to be readable, they are made to update > > things. As those diffs are the result of an automatic processs, you > > should only need to look at the updated file, not at the diff. > > Moreover, if they are unreadable, so are the file being diffed itself. > > Being readable should not be a concern here. > > This is absolutely not true in Debian's processes. Both the release team > and the security team use diffs as first-class artifacts for doing code > review.
Furthermore, third-parties use Debian's diffs as the basis for security and feature patches. At work, we ship a slightly modified version of Debian's timezone patches for PHP, and we also have used Debian's security patches as well. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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