MR against patched package (Was: Please give a test to cron package, in experimental)

2023-10-10 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 10/10/23 10:15, Alex wrote: So I wonder why you don't just provide an additional branch "master-patched" against which merge requests can be opened without the risk of causing conflicts with existing patches. This can be easily done with git-buildpackage's `pq` (patch queue) subcommand.

Re: Please give a test to cron package, in experimental

2023-10-10 Thread Alex
Thank you for bringing this up @Georges ! I would like to add, that generally it is a bit confusing that you don't restrict merge requests against master on https://salsa.debian.org/ to maintainers, since the preferred way for contributors seems to be a patch/diff on top of a already patched