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List:       vcs-pkg
Subject:    Advantages of simpler patch management tools
From:       vanicat () debian ! org (Remi Vanicat)
Date:       2007-10-13 10:38:11
Message-ID: 6b8a91420710130137ke4a45bdxe6ca3e77d07192be () mail ! gmail ! com
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2007/10/12, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>:
> also sprach Remi Vanicat <remi.vanicat@gmail.com> [2007.10.12.1637 +0100]:
> > I believe that the security team had tell us that they prefer at
> > the opposite to have a diff.gz where all the patch are applied, so
> > that they don't have to know which patch system we use to make
> > a security fix on a package.
>
> Can you provide a reference for this?

No. I tried to find it again, but failed. I was probably a post on
debian-devel, or (but less probably) a blog post. It is old, and the
concern was about how to simply have the source as it will be
compiled.

A suggestion was to still have the patches in dpatch/whatever but to
apply them in clean, so that when one build the source package, the
patches are applied.

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