Advantages of simpler patch management tools

[Remi Vanicat]

2007/10/12, martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net>:
> also sprach Remi Vanicat <remi.vanicat at 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.