On Mon, 25 May 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
* Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@cc.hut.fi> [090525 08:51]:Why would it do that? Having a patch system in place allows them to just add the patch and be done with it.Which means you have to deal with a patch system. Without a patch system you can just unpack the package, apply the patch, edit the changelog and build the package. I don't know how the security team thinks about those things, but I personaly found packages without any patch system to be much easier to deal with and to modify it.
Like I said, they probably have to deal with them anyway, so it's not a barrier of entry. And in practise, these are prepared in cooperation with the XSF so that they are pushed to the appropriate git branch on git.d.o.
-- Timo Aaltonen Systems Specialist IT Services, Helsinki University of Technology