On Tuesday 19 August 2008 16:41, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ti, 2008-08-19 kello 16:34 -0400, Phillip Susi kirjoitti: > > I have to disagree. If you are applying patches you must use a patch > > system to comply with the debian packaging guidelines ( otherwise you > > modify the .orig.tar.gz and you shouldn't be doing that ). > > That's not actually correct. The Debian packaging tools don't require > you to modify .orig.tar.gz if you're not using a patch system: instead, > any changes you make outside debian/ end up in .diff.gz, just like the > changes you make inside debian/.
Yes and our merge tools generally handle this case very well. I support using patch systems, but if the Debian maintainer hasn't bothered, I think it's not worth the trouble for us to add it. Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
