Hi Martin, Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 14:20, Martin Quinson a écrit : > Le dimanche 22 novembre 2009 à 21:42 +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher a > écrit : > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 15:47:58 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > BTW, we have lots of patches in the Debian package, but the current > > > maintainers (me included) are quite busy and most of them have not yet > > > been properly forwarded. > > > > I didn't see some of those fixes ever before. You Debian guys must really > > like maintaining stuff yourself, else you would have pushed most of that > > upstream right away. > > Hello, > > I agree that we kinda have a communication problem. As far as I can say, > it goes back to Feb 2007, and this mail in particular: > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/quilt-dev/2007-02/msg00017.html > > which is the answer to a mail proposing the most important patch of the > debian pile: the conversion of backup-files into a shell script. As long > as this important patch isn't accepted by you guys, there is no need to > try pushing the other little ones. The other fixes are details. At > least, that's my point, even if it can be debated. > > The thing is that I read this mail as "your patch is not good enough, I > have a better solution here, but you should redo it by yourself". I got > demotivated by this: I fully understand that the patch is improvable, > but I'm not having any exam here. If there's a better way of doing so, > why not sharing it? I'm not blaming anyone beside me: that's a feeling > that I should have shared with you guys since a long time (ie, almost 3 > years). I never even tried to ask Jean for the improved patch, shame on > me.
I am sorry about what happened. I remember I left the quilt development team for a while at about that time, so probably I did not feel well with the way things were going either. Maybe I did not express myself properly, or have been rude when I did not mean to be. All I really wanted was to work with you on the backup-files rewrite. I did not want to commit an heavily modified version without your consent. I simply did not want to give the impression that I was stealing your work. On top of that, I was not 100% positive that all my proposals were good... it's not like I master bash at all. > (...) > Andreas, please feel free to pick and integrate the easy patches, I'll > try to improve the backup-files patch this week. I still believe we want this shell-based backup-script, no matter how high the performance penalty is. quilt was written in bash after all, which pretty much implies that we do no care about performance; otherwise a different language would have been chosen. Meanwhile, a noarch quilt package would be very nice to have. And think about how smaller/faster the configure script will become :) -- Jean Delvare Suse L3 _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list Quilt-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev