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Re: 1.0 format with direct changes in diff (Was: Debian Trends updated)



Hi Lucas

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 04:01:38PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Is that a real issue in practice? If you can export the changes made to
> upstream sources as a single big diff, surely you can also export them
> as separate patches in 3.0 (quilt)?

How do you export changes?  And no, creating separate patches breaks as
soon as the history is not linear, like after merging a new upstream
release.  Sure, you could rease, but that is not an automatic process.

Bastian

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