Re: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is obsolete
* Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> [2011-11-29 10:04]:
(...)
> > > > - Conditional application of patches. Some packages have patches that are
> > > > only applied on a per-architecture or per-target-distribution basis.
(...)
> > > All of these can be dealt with by rewriting the patch so that it is
> > > acceptable to upstream and applied and released by them.
> >
> > Care to explain how conditional per-target-distribution patches should
> > be bushed upstream? Think of patches requried for debian/sid,
> > debian/squeeze-backports, ubuntu/Oneric Ocelot and ubuntu/Lucid Lynx
> > when it comes to build dependencies.
>
> Those belong in a version control system, not in a single source
> package, which is only targetted at a single distribution. Such
> things can be done very easily on per-distribution branches, e.g.:
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=buildd-tools/schroot.git;a=heads
>
> Such changes would typically only affect the Debian packaging and
> not require upstreaming, but even if they did per-distribution
> branches would still be the way to go.
So the suggested solution is to put the data into an SCM somwhere
outside the package (LP, git.d.o, $somewhereelse) instead of into the
package where anyone wanting to deal with the packages is guarantied to
find it (no downtime, no network required...).
Doesn't sound like an improvement to me.
Yours Martin
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