Bug#904302: Notification about TC discussion on possible deprecation of dpkg vendor specific patch series

[Tollef Fog Heen]

Hi,

The Debian Technical Committee has been asked to rule on whether to
disallow the use of dpkg's vendor-specific patch support in the Debian
archive.  As you either maintain or are interested in a package that
uses this support, you might want to be aware of this discussion and
possibly participate.  The bug number is 904302.

Best regards,
-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

[Paul Gevers]

Hi,

[As the main liferea uploader and the one that implemented this there.]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 09:46:28 +0100 Simon McVittie  wrote:
> liferea, a RSS feed reader, uses Ubuntu RSS feeds by default when unpacked
> on Ubuntu. This is a patch to XML configuration files, so would not be
> trivial to do any other way while using the same source package for
> Ubuntu and Debian (the best idea I have would be to use xsltproc or
> xmlstarlet or something, at which point you have two problems).

I don't object an alternative way of doing this, however, I am not going
to do the work. The reason why I did this was to remove the (packaging)
delta between Debian and Ubuntu because the package was often behind in
Ubuntu because of large (semi-) Ubuntu specific changes. Luckily the
technical code has been un-delta-ed some time ago, but if this is
forbidden I'll just drop the patch unless I get a patch that can be
up-streamed for this (I expect upstream to be helpful here).

Paul



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