On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:31:06AM -0700, Brandon Philips wrote: > On 10:24 Tue 20 Mar 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:07:00AM -0700, Brandon Philips wrote: > > > On 18:35 Sun 18 Mar 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:08:17PM -0800, Brandon Philips wrote: > > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "guilt". The package works > > > > > but I still need to write man pages. > > > > > > I moved to debian/patches with dpatch. Is this a reasonable solution? > > > > use what you like. I usually find quilt simpler, but really, I care > > much about you beeing comfortable with it than me. You may want to > > read[0]. Yes, it is reasonable for a package "quilt for git" to use quilt itself :-) > Wow, quilt is much easier to use. The new maintainer guide recommended > dpatch but it sort of sucked, good thing I asked :) I do not think I recommended dpatch over quilt. Please be careful. Quoting pertinent section I wrote --> > Several methods for the patch set maintenance have been proposed and are > in use with Debian packages. The dpatch system is one of the simplest of > such patch maintenance system proposed. Other ones are dbs, cdbs, etc. FYI: At the time of writing, quilt was not much (or not at all) used in Debian. dpatch was the only actively used simple multi-patch system thus I chose to describe dpatch. dpatch is debian packaging specific, quilt is not. I hear quilt has more user friendly UI but these 2 are practically the same thing for me. Just personal taste differences. dpatch-edit-patch is supposed to be dpatch's UI which matches quilt's UI. (I never use it seriously, I tend to create patches by hand. Thus I touch on this lightly there.) (There are some corner case finction differences like CPP.) I personally do not like the use of cdbs for a simple package which obscures what exactly is going on. If someone makes checking on the archive "how many packages build depends on dpatch and quit", and tell me quilt is getting enough popularity, I may consider changing text there to mention quit may be used as an alternative to dpatch. (I thoght about it but I did not want to overload this guide too much thus kept quiet on quilt.) Your input is welcome. > I uploaded a new version that uses quilt instead. Good for you. Osamu
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