Re: rails pkg
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 09:20:22AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> You cannot get a bundled upstream tarball anywhere, so what's the point?
>
> Other points that make me think it would be easier to have a single
> rails source package:
>
> - All Rails security patches are distributed based on the git repo, so
> we have to manually edit them to strip the first path component
> before we include them in our split packages. It's not hard, but it's
> boring and error prone. The larger the patch the worse. `quilt import
> -pN` can help here, but unmodified patches are better.
You could literally automate that with no errors. Of course your
suggestion of a manual import is error prone because humans make
errors but automating it would remove the manual and the error part
solving that entire argument.
> - IMO because the components are released upstream in lockstep, having
> them in Debian with different version numbers conis confusing.
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