Package: maint-guide
Version: 1.2.11
Severity: normal
Condidering (per Adeodato Simó):
Here are the numbers:
dist | quilt | dpatch
-------|----------------
sarge | 11 | 485
-------|-------|--------
etch | 338 | 1185
-------|-------|--------
lenny | 515 | 1393
-------|-------|--------
sid | 598 | 1505
I believe it's very appropriate to at least mention quilt in the new
maintainer guide.
I propose to add following to "6.4 The dpatch system".
Change from:
Several methods for the patch set maintenance have been proposed and are
in use with Debian packages. The dpatch system is one of the simplest of
such patch maintenance system proposed. Other ones are dbs, cdbs, etc.
Change to
Several methods for the patch set maintenance have been proposed and are
in use with Debian packages. The dpatch and quilt system are one of the
simplest of such patch maintenance system proposed. Other ones are dbs,
cdbs, etc. Here I describe debian specific dpatch system below. The
quilt system is non-Debian specific and works similarly.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
