Reinhard Tartler wrote: > I really wonder who brought up the (wrong) claim that *not* using a > patch system was deprecated in the first place.
It isn't deprecated; it's something you were never supposed to do. >> In the first case, if you are going to start patching you need to use >> one of the patch systems to do it. > > I disagree with the necessity with doing that. And I strongly disagree > telling Debian Developers to use one. The last time I read the debian packaging guide it was debian developers telling ME to use a patch system, and not to modify the original upstream files directly. This was reinforced by lintian complaining loudly if you do so, and I had packages rejected for doing this. It certainly makes managing the changes across several versions ( both local and upstream ) much easier. When you add more than one trivial patch without a patch system it becomes impossible to manage them since they get merged into one large patch, so you have a hard time pulling just one back out, or sending it upstream, or fixing it to apply cleanly to a new upstream version. Has debian policy changed in the last few years? -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
