On 7/23/19 11:59 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 07:31:11PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> 1- Mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser, meaning we do mandate using Git for >> packaging. > > Good. Especially if we can then drop quilt. > >> 2- Mandating using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout for Git, as this >> seems to be the most popular layout, and that we need some kind of >> consistency. > > Big fat enormous NO! gbp is a workaround for the biggest evil in our > packaging: quilt. Watching pro-git-only talks on the Debconf, I got the > impression that if we dropped the VCS-in-VCS approach, there'd be no need > for most of that complexity.
How do you track what you've applied in Debian, and the status of your patch upstream? With DEP3 patch headers in d/patches, we track this easily. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)