Hi Jerome, Michael talked to me last week about his idea to use the same common patchset and packaging scripts. His suggestion is for us to use the same patch directory, with a mechanism to select which of the packages are actually applied.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:27:57PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote: > > Such that we can host these 5 (?) Debian patches in CVS; and share the > > burden of releasing together. > > > > If we do that it's no problem to get you CVS accounts to play with > > 'openoffice'. > > > > That's at least one suggestion, > I don't quite understand what it's all for, as we still can't use it > directly into Debian because of the patch format (-p0 vs -p1). The idea is for our packages to use his scripts to apply the patches instead of the modified dbs we currently have. So we would add the existing Debian-only patches into Michael's directory, and probably stop using debian/patches. The remaining patches can be converted to -p0 format. > Why don't you sort these patches as gnome-dependent or not? > I can help you, if you wan't. Miachel created the mechanism for us to tag the patches that we want to include/exclude, now it is up to us to decide what to include. > I don't quite see why Ximian should do Debian-specific parts, and as I > understand well, it is not, it is just related to the > desktop-friendliness. The Debian-specific mechanism that Michael added was for the Debian team, not for himself. It is for us to decide which patches we will include in our packages. Chris
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