[Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

2009-11-23 Thread Martin Quinson
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

Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

2009-11-23 Thread Jean Delvare
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

Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

2009-11-23 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:57:53PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: 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; Um, no, I would disagree. I

Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

2009-11-23 Thread Tim Bird
Jean Delvare wrote: Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 17:05, Greg KH a �crit�: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:57:53PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: 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

Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

2009-11-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Tim Bird wrote: I agree with Greg. I have several trees that have over 1000 patches. Why are you using quilt and not a VCS for those heavy cases? I haven't looked at the details of what you are suggesting, but any change that slows 'quilt pop' down by a factor of 3 is

Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

2009-11-23 Thread Tim Bird
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Tim Bird wrote: I agree with Greg. I have several trees that have over 1000 patches. Why are you using quilt and not a VCS for those heavy cases? I'm unaware of a VCS that does the same thing quilt does. Specifically, quilt allows you to manage

[Quilt-dev] quilt doesn't fail when patches/series is not a file

2009-11-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, here's a simple test case of the problem: ┏rivendell:~/tmp/test ┗(575)$ mkdir -p patches/series ┏rivendell:~/tmp/test ┗(578)$ LANG=C quilt new patch sed: read error on patches/series: Is a directory cat: patches/series: Is a directory /usr/share/quilt/scripts/patchfns: line 270:

Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

2009-11-23 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:42:01AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Tim Bird wrote: I agree with Greg. I have several trees that have over 1000 patches. Why are you using quilt and not a VCS for those heavy cases? I use trees of over 1000 patches working just fine with

Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

2009-11-23 Thread Yasushi SHOJI
Hi all, it seems a classic case. At Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:41:44 -0800, Greg KH wrote: I haven't looked at the details of what you are suggesting, but any change that slows 'quilt pop' down by a factor of 3 is not acceptable (to me). It would be nice to loose less speed but from the

Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

2009-11-23 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:00:33AM +0900, Yasushi SHOJI wrote: And, why don't we just do compile time check and install shell version of backup-files if we do not support _that_ arch? does debian have to have the shell version in all arch? I don't understand the main problem here. quilt

Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

2009-11-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:00:33AM +0900, Yasushi SHOJI wrote: And, why don't we just do compile time check and install shell version of backup-files if we do not support _that_ arch? does debian have to have the shell version in all arch? I don't