Advantages of simpler patch management tools

[Romain Francoise]

[listadmin notice: forwarded to list with permission.
this is in response to my comment to
http://blog.orebokech.com/2007/10/herding-my-electric-sheep.html]

Well, call me crazy, but I still want to use a patch management
system on top of my Debian packaging.  It's because:

  a) So far using topic branches for simple fixes was too complex
     (in Arch).  Now that we have Git it's simpler, but it's still
     more heavyweight than just putting a patch in debian/patches
     and be done with it.

  b) quilt provides a very comfortable interface for
     creating/refreshing patches, so living with patches isn't too
     painful.

  c) Everybody understands debian/patches.  Not everybody groks Git.
     This makes NMUs and collaboration easier.

I'll probably blog a response to your post; the gist of it is that I
find your approach very interesting but probably not worth the
trouble at the moment.  Once the early adopters such as yourself
have come up with a streamlined workflow for keeping Debian
modifications in branches, I'll reconsider.  :-)

Cheers,

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