Le Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:08:23AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : > > That is not the case when using featrure branches, the NMUer can > get the information they need. > > But if you are a security NMUer, you have a short time frame,
Hi all, actually, we as packagers have wrote a lot of statements a lot in the name of NMUers and the security team, but in fact independant opinions of NMUers have not been read often in this thread, nor from the security team about what they expect from source packages. Therefore we can all be plain wrong, as we have no evidence that NMUers want what we are arguing for: stack of patches and/or link to a fully version-controlled source tree. The only thing that seems to make a consensus is that when people have to modify a package that they have not created, and that it uses a patch management system, they waste time trying to figure out what is the debian/rules target to patch the source tree. Changing this would need to modify two or three packages out of dpatch, quilt, and cdbs, and unfortunately only the maintainers of quilt package have expressed interest in a standardisation. Therefore we did not make progress since the beginning of the discussion: - The most efficient way to deal with changes to the sources for the packager is to use his preferred tools. - We do not know if the whole concept of breaking up the monolithic diff into logical units is something that the persons who often do NMUs in Debian are intersted in. - When modifying a package that uses dpatch, quilt or simple-patchsys, developpers have to find out by themselves if the target for patching the sources is patch, apply-patches or apply-dpatches. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]