Re: Incorporating patches best practice

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 11 juillet 2011 06:52:58, Ben Finney a écrit : > Gary Briggs writes: [SNIP] > > > 1) Obviously not appropriate in the general case, but I could do a > > major new release, since I've added a couple of big features since the > > last deiban package. > > A new release of the same upstream

Re: Incorporating patches best practice

2011-07-10 Thread Ben Finney
Gary Briggs writes: > The FLTK maintainer submitted a bug today to let me know that he's > created a change that will impact me: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633474 > > In the email, he attached a patch. Until upstream releases a new version with that patch applied, then it

Incorporating patches best practice

2011-07-10 Thread Gary Briggs
The FLTK maintainer submitted a bug today to let me know that he's created a change that will impact me: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633474 In the email, he attached a patch. I'm unsure of the best approach to take for updating my package; I see three obvious choices: 1) Obvio