Package: quilt
Version: 0.46-6
Severity: normal

Hello,

thanks for maintaining quilt.

quilt's README.Debian, which is a logical boilerplate to use in packages
using quilt, suggests to add this to .quiltrc:

    for where in ./ ../ ../../ ../../../ ../../../../ ../../../../../; do
        if [ -e ${where}debian/rules -a -d ${where}debian/patches ]; then
                export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches
        fi
    done

This basically allows anyone who can write to a path above where I build
packages to influence my build system. That is because the topmost path
is in the end, and the last path found overrides the previous ones.

What you really want is this:

    for where in ./ ../ ../../ ../../../ ../../../../ ../../../../../; do
        if [ -e ${where}debian/rules -a -d ${where}debian/patches ]; then
                export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches
                break
        fi
    done

Although that snippet, in my opinion, even when fixed is still very ugly
indeed.


Ciao,

Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages quilt depends on:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-1    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  diffstat                      1.47-1     produces graph of changes introduc
ii  gettext                       0.17-6     GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  patch                         2.5.9-5    Apply a diff file to an original

quilt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages quilt suggests:
ii  graphviz                     2.20.2-3+b2 rich set of graph drawing tools
ii  procmail                     3.22-16     Versatile e-mail processor

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