tags 1032023 + wontfix wishlist thanks No. The quilt format is not suitable for this package. It can be made to work, but it will result in an strictly worse source package.
I would have to switch to multi-upstream tarballs, and end up with a worse result: larger, and harder to handle. We need decent control of symlinks, and binary data for this package to avoid possible issues, diff/patch/quilt is *not* the appropriate tool. Also, what we ship in intel-microcode is *not* what upstream ships, it is a curated, expanded version of the microcode data set using several past packages to still update older, EOLd processors (and we sometimes disable some microcode updates as well). -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org>
