Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

[Tim Bird]

Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Tim Bird wrote:
>> I agree with Greg.  I have several trees that have over 1000 patches.
> 
> Why are you using quilt and not a VCS for those heavy cases?
I'm unaware of a VCS that does the same thing quilt does.
Specifically, quilt allows you to manage patch boundaries,
either keeping or preserving original patches as you see fit,
and allowing easy re-ordering of changesets.  This is important
when managing large change sets that are externally created,
not accepted upstream, and locally adapted.

>> I haven't looked at the details of what you are suggesting, but
>> any change that slows 'quilt pop' down by a factor of 3 is not
>> acceptable (to me).
> 
> It would be nice to loose less speed but from the point of view
> of a distribution maker, having it as a shell script simplifies
> the bootstrapping of a new port:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363659

I see your problem, but degrading the performance
for everyone else doesn't seem like a good deal.
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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