On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 04:22:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > I understand that you and a few other DDs feel that way, but you appear to > > be outnumbered at the moment.
> By whom? IIRC I've heard both release team and security team members > state they prefer dealing with packages that don't use those things, and > a majority of packages don't use them. (1698 packages build-depend on > dpatch, 905 on quilt, 2767 on dbs, and 10793 don't.) Well, the worst is when someone asks for a freeze exception of a package that /changes/ the patch management system in the middle of a freeze, because then you get a debdiff that's very large and very useless. :) As a maintainer, I've found svn+quilt a great improvement over the previous state of the art. But I've also been bitten by the DVCS bug and have hope for a better future where everything merges itself automatically and gets it right every time. \o/ And yes, in general debdiffs of packaging systems are less pleasant to deal with. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
