On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 02:36:14PM +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > This feature is a very bad idea. I can see why people thought it
> > might be nice: it means you can use the same (or very similar) .dsc
> > (and perhaps vcs history) on different distros.
> Disagreeing here...
> The vendor.series
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Apr 18 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> > FAOD I feel very strongly about this. The bug is over a year old.
> > Can the Policy Editors please tell me when it would be apprropiate to
> > escalate this to the TC ?
> So
Hello,
On Wed, Apr 18 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:
> FAOD I feel very strongly about this. The bug is over a year old.
> Can the Policy Editors please tell me when it would be apprropiate to
> escalate this to the TC ?
Sorry, I wrote my other e-mail before reading this.
ISTM that we can move towar
Hello Simon,
On Wed, Apr 18 2018, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Based on his work on dgit, I believe Ian considers the canonical
> contents of the source package to be the patches-applied
> state. Developers who agree with this point of view would say that
> applying patches is part of unpacking the so
Simon McVittie writes ("Bug#850156: Please firmly deprecate vendor-specific
series files"):
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 at 14:36:14 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:41:53 + Ian Jackson
> > wrote:
> > > But [vendor.series] is quite wrong, because it means that the same
> > > sour
On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 at 14:36:14 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:41:53 + Ian Jackson
> wrote:
> > But [vendor.series] is quite wrong, because it means that the same
> > source package has different "contents" on different computers.
>
> The source package is always the same.
Hi,
On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 16:33:09 +0100 Andreas Henriksson
wrote:
> The vendor series files are mostly useless because most of the time you
> want /additional/ vendor patches, but the vendor series files completely
> replaces the original debian/patches/series which means you duplicate
> the ma
Hi Ian,
just got pointed by someone to this bug report.
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:41:53 + Ian Jackson
wrote:
> Package: dpkg-dev, debian-policy
> Version: 1.17.27, 3.9.8.0
>
> dpkg-source has a surprising and not-very-well-documented feature,
> that it is possible to have in a `3.0 (quilt)' p
Hi Guillem,
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:51 AM, Balint Reczey
wrote:
> Hi Guillem
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 3:38 AM, Guillem Jover wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Sun, 2018-03-11 at 21:51:05 +0100, Balint Reczey wrote:
>>> Package: dpkg
>>> Version: 1.19.0.5
>>> Severity: wishlist
>>> Tags: patch
>>
>>> P
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