On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:34:45PM -0400, tytso@mit.edu wrote: > I've always considered it a serious defect that .diff file contains > both Debian packaging changes as well as changes to the upstream > source. RPM's are much friendlier to the upstream maintainer because > the changes are separated into separate patch files. When maintainers > make a large number of changes to the package (sometimes with or > without informing the upstream author), the single .diff file can get > quite unmangeable. It certainly makes it difficult for someone who is > looking at the sources to get a good idea of what has been done to the > package in the process of Debianizing it. huh? maybe some packages are done that way, but not all, for some packages the diff has ONLY the debian directory which itself contains a patches subdirectory, those patches are applied at build time and removed at clean time. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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