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Re: Disabling the patch system from packages



On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 11:09 +0300, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> 
>    I'd like to kindly ask not to disable the patch system from a package 
> when it no longer has any patches. It's not too uncommon for Ubuntu to add 
> patches when trying to stabilize after feature-freeze, and while it's not 
> hard to make the package use quilt again, it's still an extra step to take 
> care of. Besides, it doesn't add much to the build time.
> 
> Thoughts?

I think disabling the patch system also makes life harder for the
security team.


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