Changes to tetex-bin (was: SVN tetex commit: r176 - tetex-bin/trunk/debian)
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>> Did I miss the commit log messages for my main changes to the patch
>> system, namely dropping dsf-patch.mk and using quilt instead - or
>> did they never reach the list?
>>
> At least on
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2005/08/thrd2.html
> there is nothing between revision 169 an 175.
I should probably repeat and explain a big:
,---- 170
| Removed:
| tetex-bin/trunk/debian/patches/debconf
| Log:
| remove patches/debconf, never used
`----
,---- 171
| Log:
| switching to quilt instead of my home-brewn dsf-patch which doesn't
| work: removing all *files and *old
`----
First of all, I discoved that the patch dependencies in my dsf-patch
Makefile snippet didn't work. I'm sure they did at some point in the
past, but it was really complex, I found one more bug in it, and it
would have been hard to fix.
On the other hand, the main motivation for writing this was that all
other patch systems I knew of (dpatch and one other I gladly forgot
about) need to copy (and diff over) complete source trees. Meanwhile I
learned about quilt which takes only copies of the files affected, as
dsf-patch did. Not only did it work, in contrast to dsf-patch, it also
has documentation which dsf-patch lacks.
The switch was really easy; maybe I'll change (back) to -p1 patches
soon, as we had in sarge; that should be easy with quilt.
172 is the corresponding changes in rules.in/rules
,---- 173
| Log:
| don't patch texmf.in-teTex in patch-tds - this is never used since
| texmf.d comes from tex-common
`----
,---- 174
| Log:
| unfuzzy patch-libtool
`----
175 is there again, and it was a whole lot of work...
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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