OoO En ce milieu de nuit étoilée du vendredi 25 avril 2008, vers 03:58, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> disait: > Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> writes: >> Did you get the mail from Alexander? [from Alexander Schmehl, on a >> different thread. >> <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/04/msg00330.html>] >> I agree with him: the diff.gz is difficult to read. > How is it difficult to read? I've opened it in Emacs and 'zless' and > in either of them it reads like any other diff. Like any other unified > diff, the changes are clearly marked by file, hunk location, and > context lines. What readability problems are you seeing? What > improvements would you want to see in the diff? When I look at a diff.gz, I use "zgrep '^+++ ' foo.diff.gz". If the files listed here are only concerning debian/ directory, that's fine, I just have to look at files in debian/directory. Otherwise, I have to look at the diff more closely: - I don't know the purpose of the modification without reading it where I could guess usig the name of the patch in debian/patches - It is difficult to remove a modification where I can just drop a patch in debian/patches - Often, unwanted modifications are put in diff.gz (generated files for example) - Modifications no more necessary can be kept in debian/patches to ease backports (or to use them again later) - It is difficult to transfer a diff from one package to another while it is really easy for a debian/ directory -- I WILL NOT BELCH THE NATIONAL ANTHEM I WILL NOT BELCH THE NATIONAL ANTHEM I WILL NOT BELCH THE NATIONAL ANTHEM -+- Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 7F15
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