Control: tags -1 + confirmed On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 10:59 +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 06:28:39PM +0000, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Hi, > > > The more obvious way is to not change the source format and not add quilt. > > Ok I thought it would be a slightly better choice to avoid the old school > big diff.gz but since I've it as git commits at my end I'm fine.
There's different opinions as to which approach is better, but the current SRMs tend towards direct patching being the safer approach for an update in stable. Some packages in this situation take a hybrid approach where a patches directory is maintained in the source package as a record of the changes made, but the actual changes are directly applied to the source. This does make the diff a little larger, but it depends on what works best for the maintainer. [I also note with a little amusement that the version of exfat-utils in wheezy appears to have been the only revision of the package ever to have had an explicit patch system (not counting the change to "3.0 (quilt)".] > So here's the changelog and the new debdiff: > > > exfat-utils (1.1.0-2+deb8u1) jessie; urgency=medium > . > * Add the fix for https://github.com/relan/exfat/issues/5 found > and reported by The Fuzzing Project. Check sector and cluster size. > * Add the fix for https://github.com/relan/exfat/issues/6 found > and reported by The Fuzzing Project. Detect infinite loop. Please go ahead; thanks. Regards, Adam
