On 11/14/06, Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
I'm working on squashing some ugly bugs in tomcat5.5,
You mean upstream bugs?
and right now I've just about had enough with the patch system. I have better things to do with my time than regenerating patches and sorting out conflicts for every little change. I feel that the complexity of the package has outgrown the patch system. So I'm simply going to make a branch in svn and work in there, with the full source tree and no patches. (IMHO that is what version control systems are for.) Then I will provide the result for review before uploading.
Please, provide the result with the *original* tarball and a serie of patches so it's easy to isolate the patches. A good thing to do is report the different patches to tomcat's bugzilla for integration upstream.
(Aaah, I'm feeling better already.) Once this is done I would like to look at Tomcat 6, which is in alpha, but we could make preliminary packages. However I'd like to have proper version control from the start, and preferably a VCS with proper merging support. Suggestions welcome, and also please tell me if you would like to help packaging Tomcat 6.
I don't like that way of working. I think we should only patch upstream when there is debian specific patches or for little things that upstream does not want to have in his/her tree. Else, for me it seems to be a fork. If you want to improve tomcat source code, submit patches to the tomcat project. The philosophy of Debian is: if we can enhance the software, enhance for *all* the community (so all the distributions also). You'll have a better impact if you send patches to tomcat's upstream than if Debian forks tomcat. I agree with you about the patching system, it's not easy to work with, but IMHO, Debian is not about doing software, it's about doing a distribution. I'd like to help with tomcat5.5 and tomcat6 but I'm a bit out of time at the moment. I hope to have more time in... January ;-) but I'm trying to keep up with mails and bugs. -- Arnaud Vandyck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
