On Tue Feb 05 14:16, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On ti, 2008-02-05 at 12:07 +0000, Matthew Johnson wrote: > > Also: * The package format should be standardised such that the same > > workflow works for everyone. > > If that's a reference to my first post to this discussion, it's not > accurate. I don't care about standardizing package formats, but I do > want to have one, simple sequence of operations to work on all packages. > Specifically I want "dpkg-source -x" to unpack a source package so that > it is ready for modification, and "dpkg-source -b" to build a new source > package after it's been edited. Patch systems can and should conform to > that, since it's important for those doing archive-wide QA.
I agree with that, however the discussion following that had lots of people (at least to me) saying that this set of operations should be a DVCS workflow. If I've misinterpreted that then I'm sorry to whoever I've inadvertently maligned (-: Standardising NMU/QA workflow is good. I just don't think it should involve invoking any sort of VCS and knowing how the merging works. Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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