Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0
Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 08:54:50AM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote:
>> It's probably unfashionable, but I think debian/patches is not a great
>> way to manage changes, particularly if you're using a VCS for
>> maintaining your packages. As others have pointed out in this thread,
>> doing this means you end up essentially trying to version-control your
>> patches twice - once in the source package, and once in the VCS.
> That's just a consequence of using two different storage formats for your
> packages: a Debian source package and a VCS. As long as both of them are widely
> used and incompatible, problems will exist in some form when using both.
> By e.g. merging all patches in the Debian source package into one big diff
> you are just breaking one of these two storage formats for that package,
> essentially mandating the usage of the other one (the VCS) for most of the
> developer operations with it.
I'm not sure that's entirely true; but even if it were, is that an
entirely unreasonable position for a package maintainer (or team
thereof) to take?
Matthew
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