Re: 1.0 format with direct changes in diff (Was: Debian Trends updated)
Hi Adam,
On 09/04/21 at 12:33 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 10:42:22AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I suspect people resent being chastised to "separate patches" as the
> toolage used to scream at you when using 3.0 + single-debian-patch.
Can you give an example?
Lucas
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