Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers'

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:53:55AM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > (BTW. there is no need to CC me with your answers, I did not ask for > that as I am subscribed to the list :-) > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:50:46AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > quilt is way more powerful to refresh patc

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers'

2008-02-09 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Pierre, (BTW. there is no need to CC me with your answers, I did not ask for that as I am subscribed to the list :-) On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:50:46AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > quilt is way more powerful to refresh patches when a new upstream > occurs. It does what it can do best with

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers'

2008-02-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:50:20AM +, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Neither did I. I just thought that it could have some features that make > it so much better then dpatch, which could actually make up the reason why > everybody is crying "damn dpatch, glorify quilt". So now everybody says > tha

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers'

2008-02-08 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Matt, On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:25:19AM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: > I'd have said that it would be more sensible to define a reasonable subset > of quilt features. A set of patches with comments at the top and a yes, this sounds reasonable. But I'm not a quilt user and therefore don't kno

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers'

2008-02-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed Feb 06 12:09, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:17:12PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Again, the discussion isn't (for me) about a tool, but an exchange > > format. We are discussing having patches served in a quilt series, and > > okay, this appro

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-02-06 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Pierre, On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:17:12PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Again, the discussion isn't (for me) about a tool, but an exchange > format. We are discussing having patches served in a quilt series, and okay, this approach is similar but different. So you want a quilt series, but

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-02-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:24:38PM +, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > So, I would agree with those recommending quilt, if it has significant > pros besides dpatch. That would be forcing to a specific tool and so > giving up some diversity, but it would keep giving up freedom of choice > on a low le

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-02-05 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:40:14AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > This seems to be much cleaner than dpatch or quilt. Also with the help > of gitk, history is much more visible. I look forward to see it matured > and accepted. personally I am a fan of the diversity in the Debian project. Its re

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hmmm... On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:41PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I ended up updating NM guide which only had dpatch to current one with > quilt: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html#s-dpatch As I read this thread back to d-project, ... interesting. It all star

Re: How to cope with patches sanely --> Debian New Maintainers' Guide

2008-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:51:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 25/01/08 at 08:01 +, Steve Langasek wrote: > > As a second runner up, quilt is ok by me. :) > > I made some stats (see [1]). 7.8% of our packages use quilt, while 14.4% > use dpatch. This was discussed in debian-doc a