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Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Recommended workflow for creating/managing patches?



* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2015-10-31 10:01]:

Le mercredi 28 octobre 2015 à 14:00 +0100, Julien Bect a écrit :
Dear all,

I need to create my first patch for octave-stk ;-)

What is the recommended workflow for creating/managing patches in the Debian octave Group?

Should I use "gbp pq" as described, e.g., here: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/development/debian_packages_in_git/ http://linux.lsdev.sil.org/wiki/index.php/Packaging_using_gbp ?

Or is there a better way?

Actually we don't use git to manage the patch queue. We just use plain quilt, and commit the contents of debian/patches as files in git.

Given that we don't have so many patches, this appeared the simplest way to us. Using gbp-pq seemed to be kind of an overkill. And, moreover, when I tried it, gbp-pq would mangle the DEP3 headers of patches.

I have always used the low-profile, dumb command "dpkg-source --commit" to generate patches. It is not stellar, but I am happy with this approach.

Rafael



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