Please check my thinking on bug 646979
James Westby
james.westby at canonical.com
Tue Oct 5 17:14:05 BST 2010
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:50:08 -0400, Barry Warsaw <barry at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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. ;)
Firstly, not all packages are handled like that, and many have changes
outside the debian directory.
Secondly, patches inside the debian directory is a wart due to not
having a good VCS to manage the changes. We want to get rid of that in
some sense, not bake it in to the tools when we are working towards such
a system.
As you say looms<->patchsystems blurs the lines, but it would be great
to get to a point where patchsystems are just an export format that you
don't interact with for the most part.
It may be that looms would actually improve the cases we are discussing
anyway, or they may make things much more complex, it's hard to say :-)
Thanks,
James
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