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Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format



Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> writes:

> It is true that 3.0 (quilt) does have a great downside, quilt, but it also
> has a number of upsides.  And working around quilt is simple:

> echo "single-debian-patch" >debian/source/options
> echo "/.pc" >>.gitignore
> echo "/debian/patches" >>.gitignore

I recommend using local-options instead of options.  That way all of your
changes go into a single patch, but any NMUs automatically are put into
separate patches by version number.  It makes analyzing packages that have
been NMU'd much nicer.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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