Hi Sandro, On 2015-11-25 16:04, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello, > I found myself in a situation where I need to patch cron, and it is a huge > pain > to handle that patch when the source package contains the debian changes > directly applied to the upstream source code. > > Looking at the git repo history, it appears a set of patches "appeared" in > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-cron/pkg-cron.git/commit/?id=79fc5634b5af71c1c6a73692c96fe79586b85d87 > but then it got also quickly removed in > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-cron/pkg-cron.git/commit/?id=9bc55b1ef8a3563ffa215983762b4f7d8bc52aea
That was an error; hence the removal again. > I'm wondering if you plan on switching to '3.0 (quilt)' anytime soon, > eventually > resurrecting the work done for 79fc563. I started the conversion years ago (see the sf3 branch), but never finished it. I've recently taken this up again, but it's a pain, as I have to re-familiarize myself with the code again. Eventually, there will be ~70 patches, and I'm currently somewhere in the middle of it. I do expect to be done sometime early next year. Regards, Christian
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