On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Things would be much easier for starters if dpkg would ship its own patch > helpers like push, pop and create patch. A 3.0 format which is working out of > the box without installing quilt and without the need to set QUILT_PATCHES > would be a real benefit for everybody.
quilt will be working out-of-the box on unpacked 3.0 (quilt) with the next dpkg release, see http://bugs.debian.org/557619 for details. dpkg-source will create .pc/.quilt_patches and .pc/.quilt_series to indicate where the patches and series are stored. Thus you don't need to set QUILT_PATCHES in that case. Furthermore, if you let dpkg-source create the first patch (debian-changes-<ver>) quilt will also be autoconfigured for you (you can then use quilt to rename the patch). > And the last thing I want to see is that NMUs (or binNMUs) convert a > package to 3.0 unless the maintainer explicitly agreed to it. There nothing like that planned. I haven't decided yet if I will change dpkg-source to build 3.0 (quilt) by default at some point or not. It will depend on how many package have an explicit debian/source/format, that's also a reason why I requested the lintian tag. Feedback welcome at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557459 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553928 BTW a binNMU do not rebuild the source package so it can't convert them. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100220132222.gc10...@rivendell
