Ximin Luo: > Package: devscripts > Version: 2.16.10 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > As part of the Reproducible Builds effort, I've written a tool called > debpatch(1), see the branch here: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/devscripts.git/commit/?h=pu/debpatch > > To quote the README entry I added: > > - debpatch: Apply unified diffs of two Debian source packages, such as those > generated by debdiff, to a target Debian source package. Any changes to > debian/changelog are dealt with specially, to avoid the conflicts that > changelog diffs typically produce when applied naively. May be used to check > that old patches still apply to newer versions of those packages. > [python3-unidiff, quilt] > > In the broader context, we have a lot of unapplied patches for R-B and we're > not > sure if they still work - whether they apply, or make the newer version of a > package reproducible once applied. This tool automates the process of applying > old patches to newer package versions, and I'm also writing R-B specific > scripts > that will use this tool to do continuous integration on our old patches, and > alert the right people if anything fails. > > [..]
Hi devscripts team, Any news on this? I would also be happy to merge this myself (I have the access) but I thought it would be good to ask for a review first, since I haven't contributed to this repo before. X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git