Re: Git Packaging: Native source formats
On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 12:20 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Friday, August 30, 2019 12:05:45 PM EDT Russ Allbery wrote:
> > This lets you generate the patches for people on demand, but they aren't
> > just sitting out there for anyone to look at whenever they want.
> >
> > I suppose it could be provided as an automated service that publishes the
> > results, but that would be a piece of infrastructure someone has to run.
> >
> > Anyway, this is probably only applicable to a minority of upstreams and
> > packages, and more upstreams these days would just like all patches as
> > PRs.
>
> It's not particularly rare for me to poke through other distros package
> patches when I'm trying to figure out how to solve a problem. I suspect I'm
> not the only one. I think having explicit patches available is a really good
> thing for cross-distro collaboration (in addition to upstream collaboration).
>
> Scott K
I'll second that looking through patches a distro has supplied can be very
useful. It's very convenient to have explicit patches you can just check quickly
to see if it could solve an issue or not.
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