On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:53:31AM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > I know exactly why you are changing the building system, but i think we > could handle it in a slightly different way. Having apply/unpatch running > always on tree is a PITA and often leads to mistakes/problems that will > leave the tree unuseable. I suggest to keep the patches always applied > and each time we add one, store it in debian/patches in correct sequence. That is in fact what I'm trying to do. It's not my intention that the apply-patches or revert-patches targets in the rules file ever be invoked (even indirectly) by any package-building rule (such as those invoked by dpkg-buildpackage). I admit that I don't yet have any comments documenting the targets to make that clear. Sorry about that. > If we need to recreate the patched tree, we can use the orig and apply > the patches, but please don't make it easy to trash the tree :) As we discussed on IRC a few days ago, I have a few criteria I'd like a patch management system to satisfy. I'll start a new thread on -x to solicit feedback on this. -- G. Branden Robinson | It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux | screaming mob pounding on a greasy branden@debian.org | spot on the pavement, where used to http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | lie the carcass of a dead horse.
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