Re: Why isn't the merge patch being merged?
Raphael, since you say that Jarno's current patch applies fine to the
current version of dpkg, would it be possible for you to merge it?
While waiting for somebody to implement a three way merge, I'd much
prefer a two way merge (Jarno's patch) to nothing (which is what we
have now).
Please merge the patch?
Regards //Johan
2007/10/24, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Johan Walles wrote:
> > > We have many patches lying in the BTS but many of them are old and
> > > probably don't apply anymore and need to be refreshed and discussed.
> >
> > This one seems actively maintained; for a couple of years now the
> > author has been packaging his own patched dpkg (currently at 1.14.5):
> >
> > http://elonen.iki.fi/code/unofficial-debs/dpkg-merge/
>
> I saw this somewhat later on, after I finished my reply. Except for a file
> rename (man/C/dpkg.1 -> man/dpkg.1), the patch applied fine to the current
> version.
>
> On the other hand, it might be that a 2-way merge is not what we're
> looking for. It's certainly better than nothing but OTOH it would be 2
> times better if we could have 3-way merge so that we can even add a new
> option --force-confmerge that tries automatically a 3-way merge and that
> falls back to the usual behaviour --force-conf{new,old,def} if the merge
> process failed.
>
> But it requires more extensive changes as we need to keep a copy of the
> conffiles as shippped by the previous version of the package.
>
> Jarno, would you be interested to work on that?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Raphaël Hertzog
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