debian patches

[Steve McIntyre]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:01:05PM +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:43:02PM +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>>
>>>Btw, where are the debian patches?
>>>On http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cdrtools.html , I only find a big 
>>>patch on the left bottom of the page.
>>
>>
>>That's the standard Debian package way of handling patches. However,
>>cdrtools on Debian uses a patch-within-patch method to manage
>>things. If you grab the .diff.gz and apply it, it will add a
>>debian/directory to the tree, and (IIRC) in debian/patches it will
>>dump all the patches that get applied at package build time.
>>
>
>ok, extracted all patches... now, let's collect the patches somehow 
>somewhere describe them and vote for them... suggestions for this process?

Time for a wiki page linking to each, I guess. Place the patches
themselves in the static www area and open up the discussion...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
"I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of
 course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds
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