Hello, On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 18:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should we start deprecating dpatch and specifying that in: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html > so new packages use quilt instead of dpatch and we start the > transition of the remaining packages to quilt?
Absolutely not: dpatch is way much superior in situation where the debian/ dir is versioned in a VCS and merged with upstream code at package build-time (I think of svn + prop:mergeWithUstream). Moreover, looking at numbers[1][2], dpatch is roughly 2.5 more used that quilt. I'm not saying quilt is not worth to be used, but dpatch is very used, has a strong users-base and has capabilities not actually available in quilt, so no, please let's keep both and let the developer choose what they prefer. Sandro [1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=quilt [2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=dpatch -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
