Le lun 11/08/2003 à 13:02, Chris Halls a écrit : > Hi Jerome, > > Michael talked to me last week about his idea to use the same common > patchset and packaging scripts. His suggestion is for us to use the same > patch directory, with a mechanism to select which of the packages are > actually applied. Great! When do we start using it? :-) Could you tell me what I could do to begin to work immediately on the RC3 version? I already checked/modified some of the patches, so I can already spare you some work. > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:27:57PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote: > > > Such that we can host these 5 (?) Debian patches in CVS; and share the > > > burden of releasing together. > > > > > > If we do that it's no problem to get you CVS accounts to play with > > > 'openoffice'. > > > > > > That's at least one suggestion, > > I don't quite understand what it's all for, as we still can't use it > > directly into Debian because of the patch format (-p0 vs -p1). > > The idea is for our packages to use his scripts to apply the patches instead > of the modified dbs we currently have. So we would add the existing > Debian-only patches into Michael's directory, and probably stop using > debian/patches. The remaining patches can be converted to -p0 format. Those patches should then be shared. Where? At Ximian's or OOo's? > > Why don't you sort these patches as gnome-dependent or not? > > I can help you, if you want. > > Miachel created the mechanism for us to tag the patches that we want to > include/exclude, now it is up to us to decide what to include. It seems some of the patches are redundant, we should work out which ones. How do we start? > > I don't quite see why Ximian should do Debian-specific parts, and as I > > understand well, it is not, it is just related to the > > desktop-friendliness. > > The Debian-specific mechanism that Michael added was for the Debian team, > not for himself. It is for us to decide which patches we will include in > our packages. I was also thinking about doing it so that other distributions could use this mechanism also with as less burden as possible. > Chris -- Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net>
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