On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 04:33:39PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm unconvinced that any of that work would really be avoided via other > mechanisms. The most time-consuming part is rebasing and squashing > related changes together into one coherent diff, but that's going to be > just as hard with any of these tools since the hard work is semantic and > requires thought, not just repository manipulation.
Also IME that hard work is made significantly easier by having a curated patch series that keeps the Debian changes in semantically-separate chunks. (Especially true for cases like OpenSSH where some of the patches correspond to externally-maintained patch sets - though in practice upstream for said patch sets has been fallow for some time, but at least in theory!) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
