On Mon, 25 May 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
* Timo Aaltonen <[email protected]> [090525 08:51]:
Why would it do that? Having a patch system in place allows them to just
add the patch and be done with it.
Which means you have to deal with a patch system. Without a patch system
you can just unpack the package, apply the patch, edit the changelog
and build the package.
I don't know how the security team thinks about those things, but I
personaly found packages without any patch system to be much easier to
deal with and to modify it.
Like I said, they probably have to deal with them anyway, so it's not a
barrier of entry. And in practise, these are prepared in cooperation with
the XSF so that they are pushed to the appropriate git branch on git.d.o.
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Timo Aaltonen
Systems Specialist
IT Services, Helsinki University of Technology
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