On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 19:42 -0600, Archaic wrote: > Was looking at popt and wondered if following debian's versioning system > was a good thing or not. Also wondered about using a patch straight from > debian as opposed to making an lfs-style patch and calling it > fixes-1.patch. Any opinions?
I am going to be very opinionated here. I cannot stand this Debian patch. It causes us to regenerate the autotools and still there are ugly messages when you build. *Very* ugly. For no real reason. All to change one line of real code. And that line really does nothing except add some stuff for some bizarre architectures. All the rest is just Debian fluff. I have mentioned this in the past, but to no avail. It was/has been/is determined that the way it is, is the way it should be. Many have argued differently, without success. I hate this patch. I hate it every time I build it. I only do it so that I can be "compatible" with the BLFS build system. Otherwise, I would throw it in the toilet. -- Randy rmlinux: [bogomips 3993.32] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.2] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 20:44:31 up 15 days, 3:19, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.11, 0.18 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
