On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Jean Delvare wrote: > It's definitely too late for new features in 0.61. What's more, new > features aren't something I'll pick myself on debian.org. If you think > these new features are of general interest, then you should actively > submit them upstream. Oh well, same would hold for fixes too, ideally.
Yeah, I know. But time is scarce and quilt is not really a priority for me. Anyway I did took an hour to prepare a branch with 4 of the trivial patches. > WRT to the fixes in the first list, please understand that even fixes > which look simple may need some discussion and adjustments when it comes > to merging them upstream. Locally, you only care about getting things to > work now in your context. Upstream, you care about things working > everywhere and in a maintainable way. I fully understand that. > For example, ensure-manpage-has-correct-patches-dir works for you, but > it relies on quilt internals which aren't documented and could change, > so I am reluctant to take it as is. quilt itself should be able to rely on quilt's internals, no? > unset_posix_strict_conformance_variables was already submitted a long > time ago, this lead to a discussion, the last post being: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/quilt-dev/2010-01/msg00024.html > So it has already been reviewed, I asked for changes which Martin agreed > with, but never re-posted. If this is a workload issue with Martin then > maybe you can do it. Or if you can't, tell me and I'll do it. It should > be quite straightforward from what I recall. I updated the patch accordingly, thanks for the pointer. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
