Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-02-06 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Pierre, On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:17:12PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Again, the discussion isn't (for me) about a tool, but an exchange > format. We are discussing having patches served in a quilt series, and okay, this approach is similar but different. So you want a quilt series, but

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-02-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:24:38PM +, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > So, I would agree with those recommending quilt, if it has significant > pros besides dpatch. That would be forcing to a specific tool and so > giving up some diversity, but it would keep giving up freedom of choice > on a low le

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-02-05 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:40:14AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > This seems to be much cleaner than dpatch or quilt. Also with the help > of gitk, history is much more visible. I look forward to see it matured > and accepted. personally I am a fan of the diversity in the Debian project. Its re

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hmmm... On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:41PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I ended up updating NM guide which only had dpatch to current one with > quilt: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html#s-dpatch As I read this thread back to d-project, ... interesting. It all star

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 25/01/08 at 08:01 +, Steve Langasek wrote: > > As a second runner up, quilt is ok by me. :) > > I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4% > use dpatch. This was discussed in debian-doc a