On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 09:20:22AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> You cannot get a bundled upstream tarball anywhere, so what's the point? > > Other points that make me think it would be easier to have a single > rails source package: > > - All Rails security patches are distributed based on the git repo, so > we have to manually edit them to strip the first path component > before we include them in our split packages. It's not hard, but it's > boring and error prone. The larger the patch the worse. `quilt import > -pN` can help here, but unmodified patches are better.
You could literally automate that with no errors. Of course your suggestion of a manual import is error prone because humans make errors but automating it would remove the manual and the error part solving that entire argument. > - IMO because the components are released upstream in lockstep, having > them in Debian with different version numbers conis confusing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cam5xqnytngkqq_pbavpotxgb7bp8jyrn-qctsrywcym1ow7...@mail.gmail.com
