On Thu, 3 May 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:03:57AM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote: > > The ports collection is similar, except that it downloads the source, > > applies system specific patches (great for the Hurd!) and recompiles > > if necessary. > > We don't want system specific patches. That's the way that lies madness. > We want the upstream author care about compatibility, and help her where > needed by submitting patches and bug fixes. > > Obviously, we don't reach this worthy goal completely. The Debian diff.gz is > our "system" specific patch :) But we still try to make it neat and clean if > necessary.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but what is "The Debian diff.gz" doing and when is it applied? /andreas
