About the patches in src:boinc

[Guo Yixuan]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Guo Yixuan <culu.gyx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Steffen and Gianfranco,
>
> I've noticed that, since long ago, our patches keeps growing
> in a unsustainable way, and thus really difficult to understand
> and maintain. There're currently more than seventy of them in
> debian/patches, and some of them have their place in series,
> partly commented. Also, the naming method in README.patches
> is largely ignored by us.
>
> As a first step, I'm going to purge those dropped for a long
> time, eg. patches like AvoidingBlanksInMakefiles.patch, or
> 005_disable_client_res.patch, which I don't find helpful even
> for backports. Meanwhile, some dropped patches might still
> be useful in some way, eg. 006_correct_catalog_path.patch.
>
> (more work in progress)

@Steffen
Would you mind if I removed your const patch set?

I mean these ones:

debian/patches/series:
13:#AddSomeConstToMakeClearMemoryIsNotAllocated.patch
14:#AddingMoreConst.patch
15:#evenMoreConst03.patch

and also annoying_warning_const_image.patch (not in series)

They seem to be just for debugging purpose, and it's not quite
meanful to maintain them in Debian. (It would be nice if the
upstream takes them, but we should not add them to our
maintenance burden, or to upstream-Debian deviation,
should we?)

Cheers,

Yixuan
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