On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:23:27AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you run into a package that does not already have some kind of > > patch system there are 2 possibilities: > > > > 1) The package has never needed to be patched before > > 2) The package has been patched by directly modifying the original > > upstream files, which is a big no-no > > > > In the second case, the package should be fixed and the upstream debian > > maintainer notified and asked to repair their broken package as well. > > In that case, I kindly ask you to not touch any of the package I > maintain in debian. I very much prefer managing patches to sources using > a VCS, and adding patch system adds unnecessary noise in the debdiff. > > I really wonder who brought up the (wrong) claim that *not* using a > patch system was deprecated in the first place.
I think the problem is, that many people don't know, that debian source packages do have this diff.gz handling, which is also a "patch" system. Not the best one, but actually it works. A debianized source tree (with debian/ already applied) can be changed outside debian/ dir and those changes are going in the resulting diff.gz. No orig.tar.gz source is being touched. I do the same...a source package which doesn't have a patch system (like dpatch, cdbs-simple-patchsys, quilt, or even dokos python patch system ,-)) applied, will go with diff.gz. Or, if it's possible and I have the time, I'll get a VCS branch and do what the debian maintainer did. As Lars said, we have everything in place... Only packages I introduced in Ubuntu will have explicit patch system in future (like I did now e.g. for zend-framework). So others and especially I can track the patches I applied from upstream. Regards, \sh -- Stephan '\sh' Hermann | OSS Developer & Systemadministrator JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.sourcecode.de/ GPG ID: 0xC098EFA8 | http://leonov.tv/ 3D8B 5138 0852 DA7A B83F DCCB C189 E733 C098 EFA8 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu