On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:24:38PM +0000, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > So, I would agree with those recommending quilt, if it has significant > pros besides dpatch. That would be forcing to a specific tool and so > giving up some diversity, but it would keep giving up freedom of choice > on a low level, while forcing everybody to a specific VCS wouldn't keep > it low. Again, the discussion isn't (for me) about a tool, but an exchange format. We are discussing having patches served in a quilt series, and let people adapt their tools to be able to export their work as a quilt series so that other can find it and import it in their own tool of choice if needed. Enforcing maintenance tools is A Bad Idea™. The difference is huge: having common interfaces means that there is One True Tool that everyone can use if he doesn't know the Real Tools the Maintainer uses (apt-get source versus $SCM clone/checkout/whatever). -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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