On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:36:05AM +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote:
[...]
> What really goes on here is that there's a stronger preference towards
> having patches in debian/patches/ m as it is a particular convenience
> for maintainers, as opposed to navigating the source tree for diffs. I
> don't object to this at all, as long as it doesn't break my maintaining
> the package.
[...]
Not necessarily a convenience for the current maintainer (indeed,
you have yourself expressed an alternative preference), but rather
possible future maintainers in your absence, including the security
and QA teams.
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