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On Thursday, December 30, 2010 21:03:54 Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> * Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> schrieb: |
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> > On Thursday, December 30, 2010 20:05:01 Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> > > IMHO, in longer terms, all patches should normalized, created w/ |
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> > > diff -ruN and applied w/ -p1. Thats how most people do it, so |
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> > > a kind of semi-standard. |
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> > not worth developer's time to force it since it poses no practical |
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> > positive benefit to us |
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> It makes it easier for everyone who'll want to work on these |
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> patches (eg. people besides the actual ebuild maintainers). |
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> BTW: I'm not proposing to rework all the patches right now, |
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> just set a policy for new ones. |
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suggestions are fine, but these arent a requirement we're going to force on |
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developers. i already put together a list of suggestions for people long ago: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/clean-patches |
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> Even you might not like to hear this, Debian is much better at this |
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> point |
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i could care less |
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> they a patchqueue per each package, which can be applied |
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> fully automatically (w/o additional code in the invididual package |
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> descriptors). |
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it'd be trivial to do the same thing in Gentoo, but it doesnt make sense. |
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Debian doesnt maintain a unified package tree of multiple versions. |
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-mike |
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