Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But I can't see what managing Debian modifications/patches has got >> to do with our source package format. That should be left to >> whatever source management systems that our maintainers use.
> Patches are more likely to be accepted upstream if they're not one big > lump---so it is an aide to those Debian maintainers who contribute > significant bug-fixes and such upstream if they can keep patches > separate. Yes, but that's mainly useful for the maintainer and it's easily handled with something like CVS. It's not strictly necessary for a source package. Unless the upstream maintainer were actively looking into our source packages. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
