On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 25/01/08 at 08:01 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > As a second runner up, quilt is ok by me. :) > > > > I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4% > > use dpatch. It would be great to document in some place (devref?) why > > quilt should be used instead of dpatch, because I don't think it's > > obvious for everybody :) > > And there I thought we'd use whatever we like until wig&pen lands, which > will have native patch support. > > What's the status of that? Is my assumption bad?
Not completely, I'm following the discussion closely as I really want to provide the required features in dpkg-dev directly. But I'm afraid that wig&pen as defined might not be enough for all cases. And Joey already made a proposal for a 3.0 source package (wig&pen is 2.0) based on git. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]