Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0
On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 02:58:31PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 05:15PM +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>
> > On 09/03/22 at 08:52 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> >> On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 01:08pm +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> >> > Also, how would that work with packages that combine direct changes to
> >> > upstream, and quilt for Debian-created patches?
> >>
> >> Could you expand? I didn't think this category was one of the ones Russ
> >> and I were talking about.
> >
> > My limited understanding of the landscape of git workflows is that a
> > workflow that is quite popular among packages still using the 1.0 format
> > is the one used by the Debian X strike force. Julien Cristau described
> > it as follows when I asked about it on IRC:
> >
> > < jcristau> [...] basically, for upstream patches we cherry-pick
> > commits directly, and we use quilt for changes that aren't upstream
>
> Ah right, thank you. I wasn't really thinking of this case as being
> about git workflows. Are the repos patches-applied or
> patches-unapplied?
>
The patches that we keep in quilt are not applied in the repo.
(Obviously the cherry-picked patches are.)
Cheers,
Julien
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