Bug#904302: Why outlawing vendor-specific patch series would be a bad idea

2018-08-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 04:51:30PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 09:28:30AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:15:00AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > How should we handle architecture-specific patches properly inside > > > Debian? > > > > Why shoul

Bug#904302: Why outlawing vendor-specific patch series would be a bad idea

2018-08-20 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I'm maintaining two packages which have Ubuntu-specific patches, which have been imported by Ubuntu maintainers giving a hand here in order to reduce the diff with Ubuntu and maintain the packages in the same place. I don't have strong opinions

Bug#904302: Why outlawing vendor-specific patch series would be a bad idea

2018-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 09:28:30AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:15:00AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > How should we handle architecture-specific patches properly inside > > Debian? > > Why should there ever be architecture-specific patches? > > I get that there some

Bug#904302: Why outlawing vendor-specific patch series would be a bad idea

2018-08-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:15:00AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > How should we handle architecture-specific patches properly inside > Debian? Why should there ever be architecture-specific patches? I get that there sometimes need to be vendor-specific patches, because defaults may differ between d