On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> >> wrote: >> >> > How can I reliably inform the Debian packaging tools that my quilt >> > patches are in ‘patch -p0’ format? >> >> You don't want to use -p0 otherwise you'll get bugs from buxy about >> not supporting dpkg source package v3. > > Hmm. Why does buzy have this behaviour? My first impression is that, > if buxy can't handle a ‘-p0’ patch, that's a bug.
buxy (Raphael Hertzog) has pushed dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) source packages into lenny dpkg and understandably wants us to switch to it for squeeze: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00348.html The reason you cannot use -p0 with dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) source packages is because dpkg-source ignores options in the series file and expects patches were generated with -p1 or -pab, a quote from the dpkg-source manual page: Note however that while dpkg-source parses correctly series files with explicit options used for patch application (stored on each line after the patch filename and one or more spaces), it does ignore those options and always expect patches that can be applied with the -p1 option of patch. It will thus emit a warning when it encounters such options, and the build is likely to fail. buxy has been filing bugs on packages that fail to build as a result of using patches generated using -p0. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
