> mais en interne les mainteneurs utilisent git et tous les patches sont correctement séparés dans la version distribuée sur git.debian.org.
Ce n'est pas le cas, et de loins : http://blog.orebokech.com/2008/05/some-diffgz-statistics.htm(...)
One of the issues under discussion is that some Debian packages don't use a patch system and ship all their modifications unseparated in the Debian .diff.gz, which makes it harder or impossible to extract patches later on and to understand why some changes were made.
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Out of curiosity, I did a quick scan of my local mirror to see how many packages ship changes outside debian/ in their .diff.gz, and I was surprised to see that 4803 source packages out of 11853 (40%) do so!
[^] # Re: Limite du développement bénévole
Posté par IsNotGood . En réponse à la dépêche Découverte d'une faille de sécurité critique dans OpenSSL de Debian. Évalué à 2.
Ce n'est pas le cas, et de loins :
http://blog.orebokech.com/2008/05/some-diffgz-statistics.htm(...)
One of the issues under discussion is that some Debian packages don't use a patch system and ship all their modifications unseparated in the Debian .diff.gz, which makes it harder or impossible to extract patches later on and to understand why some changes were made.
...
Out of curiosity, I did a quick scan of my local mirror to see how many packages ship changes outside debian/ in their .diff.gz, and I was surprised to see that 4803 source packages out of 11853 (40%) do so!