Re: How to cope with patches sanely
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Feb 2008, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > Is there sombody working on Wig&Pen? Is the format consensual enough
> > that it would be accepted in Debian?
>
> I plan to work on it (but have not done anything yet except thinking about
> it and following discussions), the format might need some tweaks (explicit
> list of patches instead of implicit for example) but the basic principles
> are sane and I believe it will be accepted in Debian.
The wig&pen format has been implemented and much more:
http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2008/03/16/new-source-package-formats-call-for-tests/
http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2008/03/msg00155.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2008/03/msg00166.html
Testers are needed so that we can merge that in time for lenny.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
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