On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:35:08AM -0400, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: > What about in my case, I forked the code because upstream vanished > six years ago. I jump from 1.5 (original) to 1.7 (my version). I made > some major mods to it and had a 1.6, then I added autotools support > and bumped it to 1.7. The diff from 1.5 to 1.7 is bigger than the > source for 1.7!
That's irrelevant. I took over man-db after one upstream stopped working on it and the second died. The diff from 2.3.17 to 2.3.18 was enormous. Yet I then made 10 Debian releases before I made the next upstream release; I won't paste the changelog here as 184 lines seems a bit excessive, but suffice to say that the number of changes you need between upstream releases can sometimes surprise you even if you're upstream. I keep the whole debian/ directory for man-db in the .diff.gz. The point is to have a Debian-specific diff against your own upstream release for the assistance of other Debian developers and users, not to have a diff against the *previous* upstream release. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
