Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?
Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> writes:
> Having a simple and straghtforward patch system would lower the bar for
> new packagers, as well as open the way to have .diff.gz files which
> would only touch the debian directory, instead of containing a mixture
> of packaging instructions, code changes, and autoconf gizmo (another
> Debian nightmare which I do not understand the benefit).
If nothing in the diff.gz touches files outside of debian there is
actually no need for it to be a diff. It could be debian.tar.gz which
would be able to preserve file permissions and symlinks.
Matthias
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