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Re: Centralized darcs



On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:47:01PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> > to learn how we deal with this all.
> 
> This is fine, but (again) you forget about your 'apt-get source' users, which 

NO.  They need not care.  They can just hack and send me diffs.  My
debian/changelog will already document what has been going on anyway.

> are not supposed to be aware of your SCM, where your repo is, patches applied 
> to the upstream source and why they have been applied. I.e. if you have 
> patches, do them debian way (using a debian patch system) even using SCM to 
> manage your whole packaging. Your orig.tar.gz must be really original tar.gz, 
> and your diff.gz should hold whole debian-specific thing.

I am quite well aware of that and it is trivial to do.




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