On Wed, 21 May 2008, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Apologies if I'm missing something (which is entirely possible :), but > my experimentation suggests that using --skip-patches simply swaps one > set of noise for another.
If you take a package that contains upstream changes in its .diff.gz, you effectively get that. But any package using quilt/dpatch/simple-patch-sys will not have upstream changes applied at unpack time and will thus have less noise with this change. Also consider the case when you compare two 3.0 (quilt) packages together (say an NMU integrating an upstream patch), as you have a new patch in debian/patches/ and the new patch applied, you get to see the same change twice in the debdiff, not really optimal. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
