On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:40:04PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:25:01AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > If Debian treated our upstreams this way, I'd be suprised if we ever got > > any patches accepted upstream. > Debian does, in fact, treat most of its upstreams precisely this way. > Debian publishes a large portion of its changes primarily in the form of > monolithic diffs relative to upstream source. The last time I saw figures, > the usage of dpatch, cdbs, etc. was rising, but not yet the standard > operating procedure. If upstream is having to find and trawl through source packages in order to pick up changes then that's already a sign that there has been a failure in communication. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
