[Build-common-hackers] Bug#332638: marked as done (cdbs-edit-patch could be merged with dpatch-edit-patch)

Fri Jan 6 21:18:50 UTC 2006

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From: Charles Fry <debian at frogcircus.org>
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Subject: cdbs-edit-patch could be merged with dpatch-edit-patch
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Package: cdbs
Version: 0.4.32
Severity: wishlist

Perhaps it is heresy to say this here, but it seems to me that much good
would come of merging cdbs-edit-patch into dpatch-edit-patch. From the
cdbs side, cdbs-edit-patch simply lacks much of the functionality of
dpatch-edit-patch.

Further, dpatch-edit-patch already creates a perfectly acceptable patch
file; it simply prepends it with extra dpatch information.

It would be fairly simple for dpatch-edit-patch (and
dpatch-convert-diffgz for that matter) to perform differently with a
.patch extension than with a .dpatch extension, making those tools
useful to both the dpatch and the cdbs communities.

Of course the other alternative would be to simply port all of
dpatch-edit-patch's current functionality to cdbs-edit-patch, but that
seems potentially overkill.

I've already raised the idea in the dpatch community with bug #330808,
and they expressed an interest as long as a working patch for
dpatch-edit-patch could be provided.

For that matter, dpatch could be entirely modified to accomodate
standard .patch files in addition to its custom .dpatch files, but
that's another story.

When time permits, I would love to work on this, but since that is not
currently the case I will let this bug report suffice. ;-)

Charles

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From: Charles Fry <debian at frogcircus.org>
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After spending some time hacking at dpatch-edit-patch, I've determined
that this is a bad idea. While code could be shared between the two, the
fundamental goals appear unreconciably different.

Charles

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