Russ Allbery dijo [Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:36:31PM -0800]: > > By whom? > > Well, basically every discussion about this that I've seen on -devel, > discussions on -mentors, the teams that I'm familiar with (pkg-perl is > standardizing on quilt and other major packaging efforts seem to be doing > likewise), and my impression from reading debian/changelog files.
Well, please take into account that pkg-perl standardized on quilt mainly because we use SVN as our base coordination tool - If our repository was over one of the newer distributed VCSs, it could have been different. Still, quilt makes quite a bit of sense to me. Of course, I have not yet fallen in love with git or its competitors. > > (1698 packages build-depend on dpatch, 905 on quilt, 2767 on dbs, and > > 10793 don't.) > > I'm surprised at the number of dbs packages still out there. I wouldn't > have expected that. The quilt vs. dpatch breakdown doesn't surprise me; I > think that's in part a product of dpatch having been around longer and in > part because dpatch can do some things that quilt can't. > > How many of the 10793 that don't depend on any of these systems have diffs > outside of the debian directory? That's the total population that's > interesting here. I would hope that most Debian packages had no need to > modify the upstream source at all. There is, surely, some extra noise (although I expect it to be mostly ignorable) - Yesterday I remember dropping build-dependencies on dpatch off at least one package that didn't really use it. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
