On 25/04/2008, Ben Finney wrote: > How is it difficult to read? I've opened it in Emacs and 'zless' and > in either of them it reads like any other diff. Like any other unified > diff, the changes are clearly marked by file, hunk location, and > context lines. What readability problems are you seeing? What > improvements would you want to see in the diff?
Which means that all modifications to upstream sources are mixed in that diff, along with the addition of the debian/ directory. > As for a "patch management system", I find packages that use them > *more* difficult to understand as an outsider than those that use the > standard foo.diff.gz. If one is used, there should be one patch per topic, stored as debian/patches/$topic, thus grouping all modifications to upstream sources in a single file, thus helping people understand which diffs belong to which topic, and have an idea what's going on. > I've read much discussion for and against, and I'm currently convinced > that such systems are detrimental, on balance, for those wanting to > work with the package. So, no thanks, I'll decline on that suggestion > and continue to ship a standard foo.diff.gz. Note that a standard foo.diff.gz will still be shipped, it will only contain the addition of a debian/ (along with debian/patches/) directory. Just trying to clarify what was meant… Mraw, KiBi.
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