Bug#467655: ITP: cbflib -- C library for accessing Crystallographic Binary Files

[Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>]

Le Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:46:34PM +0100, Teemu Ikonen a écrit :
> 
> In principle team maintenance would be great. In practice the current
> efforts in alioth have some technical problems. The practice seems to
> be to store only the debian dir to the version control repository, but
> one usually needs to patch the upstream source, even if only the
> makefiles. This then leads to storing patch stacks in the debian dir,
> which is rather cumbersome (more arguments here:
> http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/dpatch_dbs_etc_etc_etc_etc_considered_harmful/
> )

Hi,

Although we prefer using patch management systems, the mergeWithUpstream
option of svn-buildpackage does not require that. In that case, you
would have to include a versionned copy of the modified files in their
original location.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles