[Pkg-shadow-devel] Policy for patches in the sid branch

[Christian Perrier]

> The remaining diff (after a dpatch apply-all) are:
>   * some patches applied to debian files
>   * automatically generated files (aclocal.m4, config.{guess,h.in,sub},
>     configure, configure.in, */Makefile.in, getdate.c
>   * COPYING file is missing

Yep. COPYING was not in the orig.tar.gz file...

> The following may need some work:
>   * debian/po/de.po
>     Christian, do you remember having changed something there recently?

No, not very important is that's about obsolete strings.


> > P.S. Also, what is the policy for patching
> > Debian-specific stuff, like remove-shell? I just
> > changed the file in CVS under pkg-shadow/sid/
> > directory.
> > 
> > We should rather document this.
> 
> Yes, the diff showed this.
> 
> IMO, this is OK at least as soon as the diff in very small.
> So that we will be able to review the difference between the generated
> package with dpatch and 31sarge2.

Absolutely.

Indeed, I'm more and more thinking about building -32 ASAP and upload
it to unstable.

This will force us to do sarge uploads to t-p-u but that's not a big
deal.