Adrian Bunk writes ("Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive"): > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:39:23PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > > The Committee therefore resolves that: > > > > 1. Any use of dpkg's vendor-specific patch series feature is a bug for > > packages in the Debian archive (including contrib and non-free), > > This misses an important part of the previous proposal:
I think Phil was just intending to leave the recitals part alone, and proposing only a change to the operative part - not to delete the recitals. > The Committee recognises that there is a need for packages to behave > differently when built on different distributions, but this should be > done as part of the build process, using current and future practices > such as patches with conditional behaviour, patching of files during the > build, rather than at source unpacking time. However, now that we are talking about the recitals I would like to suggest that the recitals should include *maintaining different source packages in different distributions* as one of the suggested options. IMO it is far superior to patches which are conditional (at runtime or at build-time) on dpkg-vendor and I would not like to see that perpetuated. Ian.