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Source uploads during development.

One of the things that I have noticed, both with packages that I now 
maintain and those of others, is that, during the close of the development 
cycle, most if not all changes are to the debian package control files. 
These minor (sometimes one character) changes often make significant 
changes in the binary package with almost no impact on source code. Many 
packages go through 3 and 4 revisions per week with minimal change in 
source code, yet, for each of these changes the whole source must be 
uploaded as well. For pine that represents a 2+ meg pile of bits that has 
between 2 and 20 new bytes added/deleted from the last pile. 
What I would like to suggest, and only for the development section, is 
that package upgrades to source be done with patches (diff). As these 
would typically be trivially small patches, easy to install, the amount 
of traffic/time spent on repetitive source uploads would be reduced. When 
the release time arrives the patches get applied at master and the 
distribution is ready.
Does anyone else think this is at all useful?

Later,

Dwarf

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