Re: RFS: elvis - powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
Oh, interesting. I'd been noticing it in use by large packages, but I
wasn't aware it was at the point where it was a reasonable alternative to
dpatch even for smaller ones. I'll have to take a closer look.
Thanks!
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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