On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 07:50:31PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in> writes: > > I've prepared a new maintainer upload of elvis and it is available > > at > > http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/elvis/elvis*4adopt3* > > (If someone agrees to sponsor this I will of course up the version to > > 2.2.0-5.) > This looks good to me. I'll sponsor it. Please go ahead and build a new > package with the 2.2.0-5 version number. > When you do that, you may want to move the configure patch introduced in > the last QA upload to a patch in debian/patches rather than having it be > just in the Debian .diff.gz. That way it would match all the other > modifications to the upstream code. > I recommend switching from the current manually-implemented patch system > to using dpatch, although you're certainly not required to do this and > I'll sponsor the package anyway. The advantage to using dpatch, even > though it may not gain you any additional functionality over what you have > now, is that more other people use it and it's one less thing about the > package for someone else who wants to work on it to figure out. For new deployment of patch systems, I would strongly encourage using quilt instead of dpatch. It has much better handling of patch dependencies than any of the others, and much more user friendly patch editing/creating capabilities. The xorg, glibc, and samba packages, for instance, are all using quilt today. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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