Re: How to cope with patches sanely
Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> writes:
> Each maintainer may be familiar with his pet patch system, but for
> archive wide work I agree the current approach is a mess and makes
> security updates painful. Since it's unlikely to change anytime soon,
> each source packages, which uses something else than a plain diff.gz
> (which can be fixed transparently), should be mandated to have a
> /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/README.NMU, which describes how to deal with the
> relevant patch system, especially:
>
> - Through which hoops do I have to jump to create a patch? (dpatch e.g.
> is horribly counter-intuitive)
> - Do I need to register the patch in 00list or another obscure place
> or are all patches in debian/patches applied?
> - If I have to patch a file, which is patched in an already existing
> patch, how can I get a clean state to diff against?
>
> (For dpatch and quilt this could be solved by adding a symlink to a
> standard file provided.)
Could you please review http://bugs.debian.org/250202 and mention in that
bug anything that the current proposal (all the way at the bottom) fails
to include that you need?
I want to get this into the next policy update.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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