Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Adrian Bunk writes ("Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive"):
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:39:23PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote:
>> > The Committee therefore resolves that:
>> >
>> > 1. Any use of dpkg's vendor-specific patch series feature is a bug for
>> > packages in the Debian archive (including contrib and non-free),
>>
>> This misses an important part of the previous proposal:
>
> I think Phil was just intending to leave the recitals part alone, and
> proposing only a change to the operative part - not to delete the
> recitals.
Correct -- sorry if that wasn't clear.
>> The Committee recognises that there is a need for packages to behave
>> differently when built on different distributions, but this should be
>> done as part of the build process, using current and future practices
>> such as patches with conditional behaviour, patching of files during the
>> build, rather than at source unpacking time.
>
> However, now that we are talking about the recitals I would like to
> suggest that the recitals should include *maintaining different source
> packages in different distributions* as one of the suggested options.
>
> IMO it is far superior to patches which are conditional (at runtime or
> at build-time) on dpkg-vendor and I would not like to see that
> perpetuated.
As you say, a separate source package seems like the right way to deal
with this situation.
IMO policy should recomend the use of separate source packages as the
prefered solution to the problem that vendor-specific patch series were
supposed to address.
Cheers, Phil.
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