Re: the quality of Debian's diff.gz
On Sunday 01 June 2008, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> George Danchev skrev:
> > Very good, but please make these easily visible/readable to the rest via
> > diff.gz
>
> Oh no, not again... This was already flam^H^H^H^Hdebated on
> debian-devel. I believe debian-mentors is where new maintainers learn
> current best practices, not where *new* practices are developed; for
> that, you'd go to debian-devel.
I don't see any new practices being developed here, Debian's diff.gz exists
from the Debian packaging system's day 1 and abusing it prophesies no good.
What I consider a good practice is:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-patch.html
see, the PATCHDIR usually called files/ (analog to debian/patches/) from where
they will be automatically applied to the upstream code. Please also note,
that the whole thing (diffs against the upstream port code included) is also
kept in VCS: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/
Finally you don't need their VCS to see what has been applied to upstream
(ports) source code.
> Feel free to join the efforts there.
That didn't produced anything meaningful. OTOH it is very easy to suppress
useful discussions wrt improvements and quality by simple bureaucratic means
(either the list is being awfully wrong, or the reply is a blatant violation
of CoC, which was finally fixed recently) and applaud frivolously how Debian
rox.
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