Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> writes: > As someone who touched a lot of packages (>2000) I've always used quilt > successfully and have seen quilt patches used by the majority of all > those packages. This is not only true for DPT than generally in Debian. > Considering quilt as not recommended is definitely not matching the > reality and should not be written in Wiki.
gbp pq is just another way of quilt patches. The debian/patches written by gbp pq are compatable with quilt. The patches written to by quilt can be read using gbp pq import. While gbp pq has a patch queue stored in git, you probably don't want to push this to a shared repo. But: If you create patches with quilt, and then import and export them using gbp pq you might find that gbp pq wants to make minor/trivial changes to the unchanged patch files. Which can be irritating when making security patches, etc. Maybe this is why the practise is not recommended? -- Brian May @ Debian
