Re: New source package formats now available
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:10:51AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> * Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> [2009-11-23 09:50:15 CET]:
> > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > > Actually, I feel rather to convert my packages to 3.0 (native) + quilt.
> > > The way quilt is implied in 3.0 (quilt) doesn't seem to be helpful (to
> > > me).
> >
> > Yay for reuploading the full tarball for each revision! I'd rather you
> > keep using 1.0 instead of doing this...
>
> But 1.0 won't give me orig.tar.bz2 support. And your plan is to kill
> off 1.0 and implicit convert it to 3.0 (quilt) so "keep using 1.0" would
> still mean having to change stuff in the package.
>
> > The automatic patch now features DEP-3 headers by default. The NMUer can
> > rename it and edit the headers easily. If he wants to create one patch
> > per feature, he can simply rebuild the source package after having applied
> > each patch.
>
> Have you tried rebuilding the source package after having applied a
> patch in wesnoth? Or OpenOffice.org? Or nexuiz-data? Or fillets-ng-data?
> :)
Actually, on big packages, the latest dpkg-source is now 5 to 10 times as
fast as the old one. (for any format, for that matter)
Mike
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