Re: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.
Dear developpers,
following the discussion on patch systems and standardisation, here is
the wishlist but I sent to the cdbs package. (#466259)
I hope that it can lead to some progress…
Have a nice day,
-- Charles Plessy
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Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:37:31 +0900
From: Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: cdbs: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in
debian/rules.
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Package: cdbs
Version: 0.4.48
Severity: wishlist
Le Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:32:42PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> Here is a summary of the targets used by the different makefile
> includes available to the developpers:
>
> File Package To patch To depatch
> /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.make dpatch patch unpatch
> /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make quilt patch unpatch
> /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk quilt apply-patches reverse-patches
> /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk cdbs apply-patches reverse-patches
> /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/dpatch.mk cdbs apply-dpatches deapply-dpatches
Dear CDBS hackers,
Two weeks ago I have contacted the mainainers of the three most
popular patch systems in Debian, to ask them their opinion about the
standardisation of the name of the targets they use in the includes
they provide for debian/rules makefiles.
I have got an answer from the quilt maintainers, saying that they will
follow the conclusions of the discussion, and the opinions expressed
on debian-devel are supporting the idea of using patch and unpatch as
target names.
Since it is the name already used in dpatch, and since the quilt
maintainers agreed to modify /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk
if needed, the most straightforward way to reach standardisation would
be if you would change /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk and
/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/dpatch.mk to support the use of 'patch' and
'unpatch' instead of 'apply-patches', 'apply-dpatches',
'reverse-patches' and 'deapply-dpatches'.
The direct benefit of such a standardisation would be that in most
cases, when a 'debian/patches' directory exists, there would be an
obvious command to try for applying the patches, that would work in most
of the cases.
I do not know enough the internals of CDBS to evaluate if my request
would be easy to implement, but in any case, feedback would be most
welcome, to know if this is an open issue or not.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian-Med packaging team
Wakō, Saitama, Japan
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Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wakō, Saitama, Japan
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