+++ Riku Voipio [04-04-06 21:49 +0300]: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 04:05:54PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > > This is a fundamental problem which we want to minimise, but as you observe > > we have to do some maintenance whateer happens. This is minimised by pushing > > all this sort of policy up into Debian as 'Debian policy to keep Emdebian > > happy', which is possible in the long term. I'm not sure it matters much > > exactly which files the changes live in - whatever makes a practical > > solution. > > I would still rather maintain a relative patchset to rules/control/etc > than have an entirely separate dir.
It's certainly attractive if we can make it work. > However, I'm pretty new here, and > I don't know how large changes are typical. I don't think any of us do yet - that's part of the problem. It's hard to make good technical choices without sufficient data. That's why we need to try stuff out. > And if we can avoid changes > entirely, or make them part of the official package, the less time > wasted. Ultimately everything will part of the official package - the question is exactly what form it will take. I'm currently comparing our ideas so far with how the udebs are done. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
