Re: Breaks in lenny
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 04:22:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I understand that you and a few other DDs feel that way, but you appear to
> > be outnumbered at the moment.
> By whom? IIRC I've heard both release team and security team members
> state they prefer dealing with packages that don't use those things, and
> a majority of packages don't use them. (1698 packages build-depend on
> dpatch, 905 on quilt, 2767 on dbs, and 10793 don't.)
Well, the worst is when someone asks for a freeze exception of a package
that /changes/ the patch management system in the middle of a freeze,
because then you get a debdiff that's very large and very useless. :)
As a maintainer, I've found svn+quilt a great improvement over the previous
state of the art. But I've also been bitten by the DVCS bug and have hope
for a better future where everything merges itself automatically and gets it
right every time. \o/
And yes, in general debdiffs of packaging systems are less pleasant to deal
with.
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