patches

[Martin Pool]

On 26 July 2011 01:28, Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Writing the packaging guide chapter on patching highlighted for me
> that patches don't always work well with UDD.
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-packaging-guide-team/ubuntu-packaging-guide/trunk/view/head:/patches-to-packages.rst
>
> (line 90) What are people's favourite tactics for the .pc directory when adding
> a new patch?  I recommeded just bzr add .pc/* but Barry says he will
> revert changes.
>
> (line 103) Upgrading to New Upstream Versions is ugly with patches
> (and that means most packages), you have to unapply all the patches,
> commit with them unapplied then do the upgrade.  I think it would be
> nicer if bzr merge-upstream did the unapply for you and if it didn't
> need a commit. I filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-builddeb/+bug/815854

I think that makes sense, and would fit well with the plan to merge up
quilts within the tool.

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