Request to Join Project vim

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Sat Oct 6 15:37:52 UTC 2007


On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:50:18AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org> [2007.10.04.0827 +0100]:
> > your sustained bug report ratio in the last few days :-)))): we have
> > stuff like debchangelog.vim which is maintained in our repository but
> > outside the package itself. And then the vim package applies patch to
> > the outside version during package build: that's dumb.
> 
> I just approached this and found that the patch actually seems to be
> applied to the outside version already, at least in the case of
> ftplugin/debchangelog.vim. So I guess I should just remove the patch
> and move the ftplugin/debchangelog.vim inside the package and update
> debian/rules to install it? And for files where the patch applies,
> first patch them, then remove the patch, move the file inside, and
> update debian/rules?

I think what we've done before is to simply store these files in
debian/runtime/ and then have debian/rules copy them to their respective
places in the unpacked upstream source.

James
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