Christoph Hellwig wrote: [snip] > The idea is have to have a debian/patches/ dir that contains all > patches, similar to how many of the lots of little patches systems > work these days (CDBS? or the .dpatch stuff in the glibc packaging), > and the .diff.gz doesn't touch anything outside debian/. Build > preparation applies these patches, as many as possible for all > architectures, and if needed conditionally.
Then we have some debian-specific kernel tarball and a bunch of assorted patches, not an (as far as possible) unified source tree. If that's the preferred form, then why do we need a version control system for it? Furthermore, this scheme doesn't allow arch-specific kernel packages without duplicating the debian/patches/ dir. Thiemo
