Re: dpatch or quilt? in maintainer guide
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:38:55PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Osamu Aoki [Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:59:20 +0900]:
>
> > 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.)
>
> Here are the numbers:
>
> dist | quilt | dpatch
> -------|----------------
> sarge | 11 | 485
> -------|-------|--------
> etch | 338 | 1185
> -------|-------|--------
> lenny | 515 | 1393
> -------|-------|--------
> sid | 598 | 1505
>
> I believe it's very appropriate to at least mention quilt in the new
> maintainer guide.
OK. Thanks. I quoted this and filed bug report to maint-guide myself.
Let's continue there to nail down the best text for the update.
My thought is not to go into detail for quilt yet since it is still 1/3
of dpatch.
I welcome your thought to be posted to the BTS of maint-guide.
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