Bug#543541: RFH: quilt -- Tool to work with series of patches

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Ryan Niebur wrote:
> I'm willing to help.

Cool.

> > There is lots of work to do:
> > - update all the patches for the new upstream version (and we have 22
> >   patches)
> >   Martin Quinson started this work but he has not yet pushed his work
> >   in a public branch, hopefully that mail will remind him to do it
> > - document all the patches and submit them upstream even if they have been
> >   not very receptive to some of them a few years ago (in particular the
> >   rewrite of backup-files in shell apparently)
> 
> I'm guessing these two should wait for Martin.

Martin, can you push what you have in a branch (say experimental)?

> > - go through open bug reports and forward them upstream as well
> > 
> 
> okay, will look at them.

Well, we should first verify that they are not fixed in the new upstream
version... so getting some packages of 0.48 is important.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog