when DEP-3 compliant patches in Fedora?

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Sun Aug 30 14:04:12 UTC 2015


On 08/30/2015 03:44 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>> Ever heard of "quilt"? It even has handling of sane spec files built-in.
> 
> Sorry, but I'm opposed to requiring a specific tool to generate patches. 
> Patches are made in many ways in the real world: plain diff, svn diff, git 
> diff, … Requiring a tool that forces a specific workflow on us just because 
> a normal diff is not good enough for you is a no go.

You for got sed.  (Look ma, no conflicts!)

And that alone is sufficient reason for me to wish for a switch to
completely declarative patching.  (I know it wont happen.)

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security


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