On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:49:48 +0200 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > in the process of building a package, "dpkg-source -b" is run, but the > > quilt .pc directory is not refreshed. this leads to various problems > > It should not refresh that directory, it uses it and it should trust its > content. The format is called 3.0 (quilt), you're supposed to use quilt to > manipulate patches (except for adding a new one at the end which is > supported as a special case) and not mixing manual operations without > quilt and then expecting quilt to still work.
i was not aware that performing quilt operations manually was a discouraged practice. in fact, the use of plaintext config files (the series file) leads to manual editing as the more obvious/straightforward approach. also, the manual process seems to work for the most part with the existing tools (except in this particular case). wouldn't it make more sense to generalize the tools to support any approach that the user so chooses; rather than telling users what not to do? > Closing the bug since the problem is not in dpkg-source but in your > expectations. well, there is always the matter of least suprise, and the fact that the working .pc directory differs from the quilt series and the .pc directory created from "dpkg-source -x" is very suprising (especially since this could likely be generated automatically probably fairly easily). important is probably too high of a severity, but couldn't this be kept open as a wishlist? i may look at solving it myself when i find the time. of course, i can use "quilt rename" and such in the meantime, but i would rather have tools that are smart enough to work with my chosen workflow. best wishes, mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
