Re: How to handle Debian patches

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:

> Le dimanche 18 mai 2008 à 12:00 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
>> As a Debian package maintainer however I'm convinced that we'd be better
>> served by having only native + 3.0 quilt. The VCS comes _before_ the
>> source package and the source package is just an export from the VCS.
>
>> However I think that .git.tar.gz would be acceptable as replacement
>> for native packages (like debhelper for example). 
>
> Full ACK.

Full NACK.

I would rather have native packages in 3.0 quilt format. Initialy they
would have no patches but NMU uploads would automatically generate
one.

I mean what stops us from having foo_1.0-1.dsc contain:

foo_1.0.tar.gz
debian.tar.gz

MfG
        Goswin