> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 07:52:53PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > On 13/03/2020 18:20, Nicholas Guriev wrote: > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xdg-utils" > > > > I would sponsor this, but I don't like that you patched the upstream scripts > > directly without using a patch system. That will make it harder to merge > > newer > > upstream versions (due to conflicts). If you change that and use proper > > patches > > (ideally git-format'ted ones when coming from upstream), I will happily > > sponsor > > this. > > dpkg was earlier configured for the package to automatically use single > debian patch, and hence I can choose not to bother with Quilt and manage > changes by using Git. It has a smarter merge algorithm and a wider > integration with external conflict resolvers. Besides that, the package > repository is a plain fork of the upstream one and so it has shared > history. It would be fairly odd to have two concurrent systems for > control modifications of the sole package.
I concur. Using quilt together with git is a terrible idea. Quilt was designed to handle non-VCS patch series, and is a VCS on its own. And having two concurrent VCSes fighting between themselves results in stuff like patches-to-patches. single-debian-patch avoids the whole mess. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ in the beginning was the boot and root floppies and they were good. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- <willmore> on #linux-sunxi ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
