Re: How to cope with patches sanely -- Debian New Maintainers'

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:53:55AM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: (BTW. there is no need to CC me with your answers, I did not ask for that as I am subscribed to the list :-) On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:50:46AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: quilt is way more powerful to refresh patches

Re: How to cope with patches sanely -- Debian New Maintainers'

2008-02-09 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Pierre, (BTW. there is no need to CC me with your answers, I did not ask for that as I am subscribed to the list :-) On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:50:46AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: quilt is way more powerful to refresh patches when a new upstream occurs. It does what it can do best

Re: How to cope with patches sanely -- Debian New Maintainers'

2008-02-08 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Matt, On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:25:19AM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: I'd have said that it would be more sensible to define a reasonable subset of quilt features. A set of patches with comments at the top and a yes, this sounds reasonable. But I'm not a quilt user and therefore don't know

Re: How to cope with patches sanely -- Debian New Maintainers'

2008-02-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:50:20AM +, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Neither did I. I just thought that it could have some features that make it so much better then dpatch, which could actually make up the reason why everybody is crying damn dpatch, glorify quilt. So now everybody says that

Re: How to cope with patches sanely -- Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-02-05 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:40:14AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: This seems to be much cleaner than dpatch or quilt. Also with the help of gitk, history is much more visible. I look forward to see it matured and accepted. personally I am a fan of the diversity in the Debian project. Its

Re: How to cope with patches sanely -- Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-02-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:24:38PM +, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: So, I would agree with those recommending quilt, if it has significant pros besides dpatch. That would be forcing to a specific tool and so giving up some diversity, but it would keep giving up freedom of choice on a low

Re: How to cope with patches sanely -- Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hmmm... On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:41PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: I ended up updating NM guide which only had dpatch to current one with quilt: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html#s-dpatch As I read this thread back to d-project, ... interesting. It all started

Re: How to cope with patches sanely -- Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 25/01/08 at 08:01 +, 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. This was discussed in debian-doc and