Hi, On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I like the reduced work for each upload, and since it satisfies > the use cases of being able to present upstream with a pure feature > changeset;
It doesn't satisfy it completely. You can always generate a patch for a pure feature changeset but you can't guarantee that all those feature patches apply at the same time. Let's say you have 5 feature patches, the upstream maintainer wants to integrate 3 of them. How can you submit 3 patches that would apply one after the other? You have to redo some of your integration work that you already did. That said, even with a pure quilt set of patches, you can't guarantee it either. If one of the wanted patch has some overlap with one of the non-wanted ones... All in all, I think we do all exagerate the problems. In my experience, most of the patches applied to a Debian package are relatively independant of each other and inter-relationships is the exception, not the rule. But if we can come up with a solution that handles perfectly inter-dependant patches, that would still be great. :-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]