Hello,

On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 05:15PM +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> On 09/03/22 at 08:52 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 01:08pm +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>> > Also, how would that work with packages that combine direct changes to
>> > upstream, and quilt for Debian-created patches?
>>
>> Could you expand?  I didn't think this category was one of the ones Russ
>> and I were talking about.
>
> My limited understanding of the landscape of git workflows is that a
> workflow that is quite popular among packages still using the 1.0 format
> is the one used by the Debian X strike force. Julien Cristau described
> it as follows when I asked about it on IRC:
>
> < jcristau> [...]  basically, for upstream patches we cherry-pick
> commits directly, and we use quilt for changes that aren't upstream

Ah right, thank you.  I wasn't really thinking of this case as being
about git workflows.  Are the repos patches-applied or
patches-unapplied?

-- 
Sean Whitton

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