On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:50:21PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > With a patch series that changes slowly from release to release, > trackign changes in a patch from one release to the nhext becomes, > for me, a nightmare.
how is that? (not that i have never done this yet so i simply have no comparison) > > to work with a debian package i currently have to pull out the patch > > from the diff either by applying the diff to the source or by manually > > editing the diff file. > That is just the first time. right, i am only concerned about the first time here, because i have no experience yet with the steps that follow... > > so, making patches easely accessible would be really helpful for the > > exchange between distributions... > Frankly, I would justr refer people to my public repo in these cases. that works, because you have a public repo, many packages don't, and it's also not clear how i would find that repo from looking at the package. (emailing you to ask is not an option here because it takes to long) greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org unix system- iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at open-steam.org administrator caudium.org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss