В Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:52:43 +0300, George Danchev написа: > But those diffs are applied in a combined fashion to the upstream source > (not very helpful for people actually interested to understand the > code), while they might be extremely interested to understand how many > *logical* changes have been applied, what are the reasons behind such a > deviation from the upstream, hence they would need to find out and dig > into your own VCS repo which is not so tightly associated with the bits > Debian actually and officially releases.
I agree, and there is yet another very important use case for separating patches: inter-distro patch hunting. When I look at my packages at Fedora and Gentoo, I really like that all changes to the upstream source are in the form of "descriptive-name.patch", "another-descriptive-name.patch". I don't care much about the .spec of .ebuild files, but I care about patches. It is very easy to read and grab them, and they're self-contained, often directly usable for the Debian package. Imagine the inconvenience for the Fedora/Gentoo/whatever maintainers who look at one giant .diff.gz with scattered patches and tons of uninteresting and mostly useless (for them) Debian-specific files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
