Lucas Nussbaum dijo [Sat, May 17, 2008 at 02:37:31PM +0200]: > 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.
But with some time put to it, we can end up including a "the maintainer shuold not modify files outside of the debian/ directory without a strong rationale", and provide lintian checks for packages still directly modifying upstream code... It can become a long transition, but a good one in the end, /methinks. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
