[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Using quilt as patch system

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 23 April 2008 at 11:16, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| Am Dienstag, den 22.04.2008, 21:36 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
| > Are you talking about the patch system we use via cdbs?
| 
| We do not use CDBS. But I'm talking about the patch system we use in
| debain/rules to apply our patches to the upstream sources.

Sorry, my bad, we do in fact use dpatch as a sole enhacement to
debian/rules. 
 
| > Exactly what bothers you?
| 
| I find working with dpatch really hard to use. Updating patches is not
| that easy, dpatch-edit-patch does not work as I expect it to work in
| some cases. Quilt is more VCS-like, you just create a new patch, edit

I agree that dpatch-edit-patch is crufty, but one can always do it by hand.

At the end of the day, how many new patches do we create? Is it worth
switching?

Also, one of the things I learned in all those years with Debian is that the
tools questions are never settled.  So I remain sceptical that quilt is 'the'
patch system. 

| your files, refresh and have your patch ready. With dpatch I always end
| up with diffing files with their .orig copy. I guess that's not the way
| it's supposed to be used but I just don't get it. But if you prefer to
| use dpatch, we can stick to it. There's not that much to work on OpenMPI
| ATM. I do not mind so much, and waybe I've just a dpatch learning
| disability that I can overcome. ;)

Well you'd have to teach all of us (or maybe just me :) how to use quilt.

Dirk

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