Bug#953803: RFS: xdg-utils/1.1.3-2 -- desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 07:52:53PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > On 13/03/2020 18:20, Nicholas Guriev wrote:
> > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xdg-utils"
> >
> > I would sponsor this, but I don't like that you patched the upstream scripts
> > directly without using a patch system. That will make it harder to merge newer
> > upstream versions (due to conflicts). If you change that and use proper patches
> > (ideally git-format'ted ones when coming from upstream), I will happily sponsor
> > this.
>
> dpkg was earlier configured for the package to automatically use single
> debian patch, and hence I can choose not to bother with Quilt and manage
> changes by using Git. It has a smarter merge algorithm and a wider
> integration with external conflict resolvers. Besides that, the package
> repository is a plain fork of the upstream one and so it has shared
> history. It would be fairly odd to have two concurrent systems for
> control modifications of the sole package.
I concur. Using quilt together with git is a terrible idea. Quilt was
designed to handle non-VCS patch series, and is a VCS on its own. And
having two concurrent VCSes fighting between themselves results in stuff
like patches-to-patches.
single-debian-patch avoids the whole mess.
Meow!
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