[Pkg-octave-devel] Recommended workflow for creating/managing patches?

[Julien Bect]

Le 31/10/2015 10:01, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
> Le mercredi 28 octobre 2015 à 14:00 +0100, Julien Bect a écrit :
>> What is the recommended workflow for creating/managing patches in the 
>> Debian octave Group? Should I use "gbp pq" as described, e.g., here: 
>> https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/development/debian_packages_in_git/ 
>> http://linux.lsdev.sil.org/wiki/index.php/Packaging_using_gbp ? Or is 
>> there a better way? 
> Actually we don't use git to manage the patch queue. We just use plain 
> quilt, and commit the contents of debian/patches as files in git.
>
> Given that we don't have so many patches, this appeared the simplest 
> way to us. Using gbp-pq seemed to be kind of an overkill. And, 
> moreover, when I tried it, gbp-pq would mangle the DEP3 headers of 
> patches.

Well, I have created my first three patches using gbp-pq, and I found it 
quite convenient...

Anyway, I will now try to understand how quilt works.

Could someone please look at my current patches and tell me what needs 
to be modified / improved ?

@++
Julien