On Thursday, December 30, 2010 21:03:54 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> schrieb: > > On Thursday, December 30, 2010 20:05:01 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > IMHO, in longer terms, all patches should normalized, created w/ > > > diff -ruN and applied w/ -p1. Thats how most people do it, so > > > a kind of semi-standard. > > > > not worth developer's time to force it since it poses no practical > > positive benefit to us > > It makes it easier for everyone who'll want to work on these > patches (eg. people besides the actual ebuild maintainers). > > BTW: I'm not proposing to rework all the patches right now, > just set a policy for new ones.
suggestions are fine, but these arent a requirement we're going to force on
developers. i already put together a list of suggestions for people long ago:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/clean-patches
> Even you might not like to hear this, Debian is much better at this
> point
i could care less
> they a patchqueue per each package, which can be applied
> fully automatically (w/o additional code in the invididual package
> descriptors).
it'd be trivial to do the same thing in Gentoo, but it doesnt make sense.
Debian doesnt maintain a unified package tree of multiple versions.
-mike
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