On 16/05/08 at 17:54 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > In the general case, I do believe that the new source package format "3.0 > (quilt)" will help as all Debian specific changes will always end up in > debian/patches/.
If I understand things correctly (but I'm really not sure I do), 3.0 (quilt) won't really help with that: it won't prevent maintainers to directly modify files outside of debian/ , and generate a huge debian/patches/debian-changes-version.diff. It seems to me that what we need to do is decide that using dpatch or quilt is the way to go (with properly commenting individual patches). It's a social problem, not a technical one. > Once we switched to this source format, it should be trivial to create > patches.debian.org. [2] Should we wait for the switch to the new source format to create patches.debian.org? It sounds like a better idea to write it in a way that makes it work with both format 1.0 and 3.0 (quilt). Maybe work from the extract source... Also, the code behind http://patches.ubuntu.com/ is GPLed, AFAIK. We might not have to reinvent everything. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
