[Pkg-Cyrus-imapd-Debian-devel] Moving cyru22 to use dpatch?

Ondrej Sury pkg-cyrus-imapd-debian-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Fri, 20 May 2005 08:50:33 +0200


Hi Sven and others as well,

I have really good experience with cdbs (pkg-gnome, nsd and others).  It
makes packaging a lot easier...

Ondrej.

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 00:37 +0200, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm currently thinking that it might (most probably) usefull in the
> future if we moved all the patching of the upstream source I've done to
> use dpatch (or a similar mechanism given that dpatch has been orphaned)
> and keep the diff.gz clean in the sense that it only ever creates files
> in the debian/ directory.
> 
> Is this really desirable? If not: Why not?
> 
> In my opinion, it would make upgrading to future cyrus-imapd versions a
> lot easier.

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Ondrej Sury <ondrej@sury.org>