Re: 1.0 format with direct changes in diff (Was: Debian Trends updated)
Hello,
On Thu, 08 Apr 2021, Bastian Blank wrote:
> 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.
As Mattia pointed out, the "3.0 (quilt)" format supports the
"debian-single-patch" option (that you can put in debian/source/options)
which makes it behave like source format 1.0 and auto-generates/updates a
single patch in the series based on the changes you made compared to
upstream.
I don't think there's a valid technical reason to not use a newer format.
Some dislike the choices made and the fact that many new features are
coupled to the new format, but there's really nothing that you could do
with the old format than you can't do now with new ones.
(Except using a version with a Debian revision with a native package)
Cheers,
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