Re: How to cope with patches sanely
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Well, assuming that you're not anticipating people would use tools in
>> dpkg-dev instead of a patch management system, we're talking about
> I don't know yet really. I imagine that someone doing an NMU on a source
> package using the new format would want to split his changes in separate
> logical patches to be added in the series file.
>
> How would one do that without having to use/learn the VCS/patch management
> tool of choice used by the author?
If there are tools to go from the source format to quilt or dpatch and
vice versa, they can use whichever patch management system they prefer and
produce a new source package from which the maintainer can extract the
patches.
> The extracted source should at least keep a list of applied patches so
> that new patches are taken into accoun when the source is regenerated.
Yes, that's necessary (but not sufficient).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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