On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:55:45PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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. Right, AFAICT the larger packages have been early adopters of quilt not because it's harder, but because they're the packages that have desperately needed something better :) -- 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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