Hi Adam, > I have to admit that I'm not really keen on approving an update which > consists of "add this tar to the source package". I'm also still not
Understandable. > sure why the suggestion is to add the changes via such a binary update > rather than a patch - I appreciate that the changes might be large, but > that doesn't preclude being able to produce an actual diff. I can do a patch, that is the easiest part of course, but it will be huge. > (Codebases where patches can't be backported also really don't thrill me > with an SRM hat on, but that's another matter.) They can, if someone could identify the single patch and try to get it working in the old code base - which has been severly rewritten in hthe meantime. I can try for that, but I have *no* idea when how and if it works out. All the best Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
