Re: [Fedora-packaging] shipping distribution-specific patches *separately*
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 08:31 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Hi!
Quoting a paragraph from:
http://lwn.net/Articles/283030/
> Debian's packaging policy resembles that of most other distributions.
> A Debian source package is supposed to contain a tarball of the
> upstream source distribution, without changes. Any
> distribution-specific patches are included separately and applied
> when the source package is prepared for building.
Do we have a policy that all patches we apply in our packages need to be
included *separately*?
None that I am aware about, except that we ask/encourage
packagers to
use clean upstream tarballs.
As a consequence of this, we have a similar rule in effect.
Do we care or do we want to ignore this (minor) issue?
IMO, we
should.
(ยน) Side note: I think it's wrong to add such a patch, as
differing from
upstream in things like config file naming just creates trouble and
confusion for everyone.
Agreed. Shipping customized tarballs, where an upstream is
available
should be banned.
Ralf