Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:13:37AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: >> The only sad thing is that quilt only deals with patches (i.e. diffs), >> whereas dpatch can do scripts, too. Anyways, I now prefer not using >> dpatch of quilt. > > Does anyone know how common it is for this additional functionality to > be used in packages in the archive?
I use it in cernlib and related packages. Upstream builds several libraries, which are a complete mess in terms of mutual dependencies (lib1 requiring symbol foo from lib2, but lib2 requiring symbol bar from lib1). So I use dpatch scripts to move a number of source code files from one library to another to fix this mess. (Off-topic, but this doesn't really break any binary compatibility with upstream, since upstream doesn't even build shared libraries.) Using real patches to delete the files from one directory and resurrect them in another directory would bloat the Debian diff a lot more, and be much harder to keep in sync with upstream changes (not that cernlib is really changing anymore, admittedly). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751
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