Please check my thinking on bug 646979

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Oct 05, 2010, at 09:37 AM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

>Now, I would imagine that the *interesting* merges are not clean like
>this. Why would you really care about merging if debian isn't adding
>patches to the upstream code? (Other than procedurally being the right
>thing to do, it doesn't seem *interesting*.)

Won't all the patches Debian (or Ubuntu) adds be in patch system files living
in debian/?  Of course, the looms<->patchsystem idea kind of blurs that, but
ultimately the packaging directory should fully contain any downstream changes
Ubuntu or Debian would add.  (I think. ;)

- -Barry
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