Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

[Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de>]

Am Montag 31 Juli 2006 17:08 schrieb Frank Küster:
> Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> > Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> writes:
> >> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 09:39:26PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> >>> Do you know of a good example of a tool that has successfully shaped
> >>> Debian development for a large number of people?
>
> [...]
>
> > How about debhelper, debconf, dpatch?
>
> dpatch as an example for both success and non-success:  It's great for
> many applications, but for large source trees other tools, like quilt,
> are superior.

And quilt is much more intuitive to use. Using dpatch is a science for itself.

HS