Re: [Quilt-dev] Re: [PATCH] Remember location of patches and series file

[Jean Delvare]

Hi David,

Le vendredi 4 décembre 2009 11:39, David Paleino a écrit :
> > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Martin Panter wrote:
> >> I've done this by allowing a local version of .pc/quiltrc. I'm
> >> attaching two patches against quilt-0.48 that are related to this that
> >> you can use if you want:
> > 
> > It's a possibility but not my preferred one because someone still has to
> > setup the quiltrc file manually.
> 
> And, besides that, quilt documentation says that all it's needed to share 
> patches is QUILT_PATCHES (specifically, the series file and the patches).
> Requiring the user to change things in .pc/ would break this "portability".
> 
> (cfr. quilt.pdf, §5.3)

I don't quite follow you here.

For one thing, the statement that sharing $QUILT_PATCHES is sufficient
isn't true even today. quilt supports series files both in
$QUILT_PATCHES and at the root of the source tree. In the latter case,
obviously, sharing $QUILT_PATCHES is not sufficient.

For another, I fail to see how .pc/quiltrc would alter the current
situation. The fact that QUILT_PATCHES could be redefined there does
not change the fact that the contents of $QUILT_PATCHES is what you
want to share (modulo the exception mentioned above.)

Lastly, quilt.pdf is a piece of documentation, not a specification.
It should reflect what quilt implements at a given point in time,
not the other way around. In other words, if we feel that quilt's
behavior should be changed for whatever reason, we can (and should)
simply update the documentation accordingly.

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3