Hello Helmut, On Fri 04 Jun 2021 at 08:49PM +02, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 07:43:59PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> I want to add a few patches to this repository: >> >> <https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc/> >> >> Surely there must be some tool support to help with that? I know how >> to do it manually (perhaps even involving quilt). Has every Debian >> developer their own script for that? (It's like this in RPM land …) > > There is no homogeneity on git repositories. The sad truth is that if > you want to work with arbitrary packages in a homogeneous way, it is > best to avoid git entirely and work with .debdiffs instead. Eventually, > dgit might solve this, but its adoption still is fairly low. dgit has already mostly solved working with arbitrary packages in a homogeneous way -- `dgit clone` gets you something standard, and you can then just cherry-pick/format-patch your work to share with the maintainer. -- Sean Whitton
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