[Pkg-shadow-devel] CVS sid: debian/patches do not unapply cleanly

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Martin Quinson (martin.quinson@loria.fr):

> I still don't understand why you use dpatch instead of quilt. It's not

Because I am a non standard geek and first try to get the job done
without really nitpicking about the bleeding-edge tool which allows to
get it done smarter..:-)

This is what made me use OpenOffice spreadsheets to track down French
l10n until someone wrote us a very nice tool to do it better and
convinced me to use it..Remember?

At some moment, I had to sort out the Debian specific patches and
isolate them. As I already use dpatch on my other packages, I found
easier for me to use it here again...

But, well, any contribution to make us switch to a smarter tool is
welcomed, as long as the switch is easy.

But, this should not interfere with Nicolas work on 0xx patches to
sort them out between "things already applied upstream", "things that
should be applied upstream" and "things which should remain Debian specif=
i".

At this very moment, we have something that works. Indeed, it didn't
work well mostly because I first misused dpatch...

So, feel free to switch our sid directory to quilt in a parellel
debian/patches-quilt directory....and keep it synced with
debian/patches until we completely decide to switch over to quilt and
drop dpatch. Next working topic for your next rainy holidays, my
friend?=A0:-)