Dear maintainers of CDBS, dpatch, and quilt, if you are subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], you must have noticed the long discussion about patch systems. An idea that was quite popular was to standardise the patch target in all patch systems used during package building.
Here is a summary of the targets used by the different makefile includes available to the developpers: File Package To patch To depatch /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.make dpatch patch unpatch /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make quilt patch unpatch /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk quilt apply-patches reverse-patches /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk cdbs apply-patches reverse-patches /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/dpatch.mk cdbs apply-dpatches deapply-dpatches Since these five files provide patching facilities to a large number of Debian source packages, it would be very advantageous if they could use the same name for the patching and depatching rules: developpers could use them without needing ab initio knowledge of the underlying system. Obviously, there is no solution that wouldn't require a change in at least two packages, and that is the reason I contact all of you and CC debian-devel. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-med packaging team WakÅ, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
