Hi Brian, Am Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 10:59:34AM +1100 schrieb Brian May: > 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?
Thanks a lot for the explanation. So the Wiki should be changed in this direction it should include this explanation. In any case creating the impression quilt should not be used does not reflect reality. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
