Re: Breaks in lenny
Russ Allbery dijo [Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:36:31PM -0800]:
> > By whom?
>
> Well, basically every discussion about this that I've seen on -devel,
> discussions on -mentors, the teams that I'm familiar with (pkg-perl is
> standardizing on quilt and other major packaging efforts seem to be doing
> likewise), and my impression from reading debian/changelog files.
Well, please take into account that pkg-perl standardized on quilt
mainly because we use SVN as our base coordination tool - If our
repository was over one of the newer distributed VCSs, it could have
been different.
Still, quilt makes quite a bit of sense to me. Of course, I have not
yet fallen in love with git or its competitors.
> > (1698 packages build-depend on dpatch, 905 on quilt, 2767 on dbs, and
> > 10793 don't.)
>
> I'm surprised at the number of dbs packages still out there. I wouldn't
> have expected that. The quilt vs. dpatch breakdown doesn't surprise me; I
> think that's in part a product of dpatch having been around longer and in
> part because dpatch can do some things that quilt can't.
>
> How many of the 10793 that don't depend on any of these systems have diffs
> outside of the debian directory? That's the total population that's
> interesting here. I would hope that most Debian packages had no need to
> modify the upstream source at all.
There is, surely, some extra noise (although I expect it to be mostly
ignorable) - Yesterday I remember dropping build-dependencies on
dpatch off at least one package that didn't really use it.
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