Hi! Now that #850156 (deprecate vendor-specific series files) is resolved, we have a recommended pathway by which maintainers can stop using debian/vendor.series files. Amongst other alternatves, the technical committee resolution advised maintainers to use systems that apply patches at build time:
" … or as part of the build process using current and future practices such as patches with conditional behaviour or patching of files during the build rather than at source unpacking time." (#904302) It is thus inappropriate to deprecate ad hoc patch systems in Policy, since that is what has been recommended in the CTTE resolution. Moreover, since the reporter of this bug #850157 (deprecate ad hoc patch systems) agreed with the wording of this CTTE resolution, I assume that this discussion is now obsoleted by later events. I believe that #850157 can be closed. Cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ [email protected] Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7
