On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 19:12, Nanakos Chrysostomos <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 03:26:39PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Also, why do you split the -K change in a different patch for each >> modified files? patches can modify several files and still be a single >> file, with the advantage and being the only place to look in case a >> change has to be done. > > Another DD has told me in the past that I had to split my patches in order > for him > to accept my package and I should always work in that way for my packages to > be accepted.
Well, I don't know if it was just a matter of personal taste of that DD, but it's not a requirement. You should provide a single patch for a single change, but it's not restricting the patch to touch only one file. So, in the example of -K, if the addition of it modifies 5 files, it's perfectly fine (and it is *the* standard way) to provide a single patch with all the diffs in it. Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
