On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 08:54:50AM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote: > It's probably unfashionable, but I think debian/patches is not a great > way to manage changes, particularly if you're using a VCS for > maintaining your packages. As others have pointed out in this thread, > doing this means you end up essentially trying to version-control your > patches twice - once in the source package, and once in the VCS. That's just a consequence of using two different storage formats for your packages: a Debian source package and a VCS. As long as both of them are widely used and incompatible, problems will exist in some form when using both. By e.g. merging all patches in the Debian source package into one big diff you are just breaking one of these two storage formats for that package, essentially mandating the usage of the other one (the VCS) for most of the developer operations with it.
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