On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 02:22:38PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Bug#850159: dgit: support to simple-patchsys.mk"):
> > So I just did an NMU of src:jack, which uses cdbs as build system, and
> > simple-patchsys.mk as patch system.
> 
> How annoying.

Definitely.

> I can see why you might want dgit to have this feature.  But I'm
> afraid I'm not going to implement it, for two interlinked reasons.

Thant's fine, and both the reasons you provided are totally reasonable.
also:

> > Note that this patch format is being deprecated (#624201) and only a
> > very low number of packages in the archive use it, so I'm not sure how
> > important this support would be.

Which hopefully means I won't have to touch any other package using such
patch system :)

> Sorry, but as I say I think this would be both difficult and a bad
> idea.

Fine; feel free to also close this bug, if your policy for wontfix'ed
bugs doesn't include keeping them open forever.

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