Bug#791463: closing RFS: udfclient/0.8-1 [ITP] -- userland implementation of the UDF filesystem

[Andrew Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

On 14/12/15 12:33, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Friday 11 December 2015 18:04:06 Andrew Shadura wrote:
>> > you just dropping the patch into the right place.
> I know where and how. But I do not like idea to patching original source
> code if it is possible to compile and use it without patching.
> 
> Using patches has problem for inconsistency and upgrading if original
> source code which patch modify changes.
> 
> And also I see using patches as last option. Are not Debian want to
> reduce patches if they are not really needed?

I think it's appropriate to apply a patch (and submit it upstream) in
this case, as this is certainly a bug in the upstream makefile, and it
should be fixed.

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Cheers,
  Andrew