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Hello, here is the answer I got from upstream when forwarding your request to them. In my understanding, it means that allowing to not pass -E to patch would not solve all the issues arising when dealing with empty files. In any case, this is an upstream issue, and I invite you to come on [email protected] to discuss it further (I'm there too ;) Sorry for the delay and thanks for your patience, Mt. ----- Forwarded message from Joe Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:40:00 -0800 From: Joe Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Quilt-dev] Bug#333480: quilt: no way to avoid patch -E option Martin Quinson wrote: >Another bug I received in the debian BTS a while ago. I'm really unsure >about what to do here. > > I proposed moving the "-E" option to QUILT_PATCH_OPTS a few months ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/quilt-dev/2005-08/msg00007.html In the ensuing discussion, I found that I couldn't get diff to generate output that represents adding an empty file, though this should theoretically be possible. More importantly, if I generated a reasonable representation directly (bypassing diff), patch wouldn't accept it and create a file. So, in practice quilt has more problems with handling empty files than just how the "patch -E" option is handled. >Thanks for any advice, >Mt. > >----- Forwarded message from Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > >Subject: Bug#333480: quilt: no way to avoid patch -E option >X-Debian-PR-Package: quilt >From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:29:52 -0700 >User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) > > >Package: quilt >Version 0.42-1 > >Quilt currently appears to unconditionally insert -E as a patch >argument (see /usr/share/quilt/patch). This causes it to remove files >that end up with a size of 0 after patching. > >The patch manpage suggests that -E isn't normally necessary, and it >can cause trouble. > >For example, after updating all of the autofiles for emacs21, >aclocal.m4 will have been reduced to a size of 0, but it still exists, >and the emacs Makefile depends on it existing. If the resulting >autofiles diff is represented as a quilt patch, then when it is >applied, aclocal.m4 will be removed (rather than left with a size of >0), and the emacs build will fail. > >There may be some reason that quilt depends on this behavior, but if >not, it would be nice if there were some option to control the use of >-E when calling patch. It would be ideal (though perhaps not >feasible), if the use of -E could be specified per-patch, as with -p, >but a global control, or additional argument to quilt push, would be >sufficient. > >Also, I listed this bug at normal severity because I wasn't sure >that it wasn't a real bug, but it might also just rate wishlist. > >Thanks > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Quilt-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev > > -- Joe Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MontaVista Software, Inc. _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev ----- End forwarded message ----- -- The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.
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