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Bug#850157: Please deprecate all ad-hoc patch systems



On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 03:22:44PM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> [ various comments on Ian's proposal ]

Ian, do you have an updated proposal in response to Stuart's points?

> * Deprecating patch systems should also deprecate the 'patch' target
> in debian/rules from §4.9.

Thanks for noting this.

> * There are still other useful roles for d/README.source documented
> within policy and in associated documents; the python modules team
> refer to README.source as the place to document that a package is not
> using their standardised tool (git-dpm) and why, for instance.

Agreed, but we probably don't need to list all those roles in policy.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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