Re: Non-unified patches and dpkg source format ‘3.0 (quilt)’.
Neil McGovern <neilm@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:45:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> Giving a standard interface to reviewers is a laudable goal, but I do not see
>> reviewers except in elaborate scenarios about security. Therefore I will not
>> trade a real benefit for a hypothetical one, even if both are neglectible.
>> Also, I think that it is very important in a project of 1,000 persons to stick
>> to facts, and avoid building illusions together. So as long as there is no
>> reviewing process nor package reviews, there is no need to adapt to imaginary
>> reviewers.
>>
>
> /me raises his release team hat.
During a freeze, one typically wouldn't apply the upstream patches
anyway, but just cherry-pick individual changes. In this case, it
wouldn't be a problem to create unified diffs. Or even reformat the
context diff to unified, in case the upstream patch contains nothing but
RC (and translation) fixes.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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