On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:09:12AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:18:23AM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson a écrit : >> Again, I question the idea that a dpatch is _easier_ to parse than the >> .diff.gz. > Actually, I am sorry to critisize general problems of diff.gz in a > discussion about the particular one of your package, without having > looked at it. > It's just that sometimes I have a hard time finding useful information > in the some diff.gz when they have a lot of autoconf gizmo in, or many > manpages, xpm icons, desktop files, or any other "noise". I find the trick with reading a .diff.gz is to ignore anything that's in the debian directory, since that's all created (or at least, you don't really care that much what's changed from upstream), so the existent files are sufficient. I also am used to skipping autoconf-generated files in the .diff.gz, since the changes are never of actual interest, compared to the fact that they have been changed. That should trim the noise out almost entirely. I don't know if this is actually true, deliberate, or just co-incidental, but I believe it's the case that a .diff.gz has the non-debian/ stuff, then the debian/ stuff. > I agree that in the cases of trivial packages with a slim diff.gz, the > discussion becomes quite academic. Indeed, and as I've been saying, had the changes to the upstream tarball been more than trivial, dpatch would have been the first thing I did. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, B.Sc, LPI, MCSE On-hiatus Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Pobox.Com Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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