Hi,
>The reason is that the upstream 'make clean' deletes debian/patches >completely. So without this, I'm not able to patch anything. how? I would suggest to patch the upstream make clean to not change source files. (note: I'm *suggesting* stuff without looking at the code, I don't know about the build system, feel free to disagree) >You mean it should be added to Build-Depends? I guess I have >misunderstood the description of b-d-i and thought that because quilt is >architecture-independent, it belongs in b-d-i. debian has two kind of builds: all and any. packages needed for the arch-i packages (resulting in an _all.deb) can go in b-d-i while the others needs to go in b-d. an example is doxygen, used for the common -doc package (arch:all), so you can have it in build-depends-indep at one condition: you will override the dh_auto_build-indep: target to build the doxygen documentation. overriding e.g. dh_auto_build: will trigger a "file not found" exception while building on a common architecture, where b-d-i aren't installed. (the reason is exactly to avoid Porters to have too many dependencies for their porting work). So, if quilt is used in target called by -arch and -indep steps, it will go in b-d dpkg-buildpackage -A dpkg-buildpackage -B should work both (and try to remove quilt and see if the arch:any gets built correctly). cheers, G.
