Hello, On Tue 15 Mar 2022 at 11:46AM +01, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 02:58:31PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> 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? >> > The patches that we keep in quilt are not applied in the repo. > (Obviously the cherry-picked patches are.) Thanks. Is the rationale for this written down anywhere, may I ask? I'd like to read about the workflow. -- Sean Whitton
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