Re: How to cope with patches sanely
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I wouldn't worry about any metadata at all; dpkg-source would just apply
> all the patches in the series file (or, really, we could just script a
> conversion from quilt to wig&pen by appending arbitrary numbers to the
> patches based on the series file and omitting patches not listed in
> series).
>
> If someone wants to work on the tree with quilt, then rather than using
> dpkg-source -x they should use dpkg-quilt-unpack or some similar script
> yet to be written that would create a series file, stick the patches in
> debian/patches or some other likely location, and untar only the virgin
> tarball.
This seems less than ideal to me. If we want to avoid proliferation of patch
management system, I'd rather integrate some of those functionalities in
dpkg-dev proper. IMO we need at least some building blocks (API?) so that
VCS-based package management tools can easily integrate (new) patches in
the Debian source package (or define the whole patch series for that
matter).
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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