Hi, On Wed, 07 Mar 2012, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I've just seen an (ugly) instance of many quilt patches in > debian/patches that are patching things inside the debian/ folder. I am > wondering if it would be wise to forbid this entirely, and write about > it in the policy (maybe it is there already?). There's no sane reason > why this would happen: our package_<version>.debian.tar.gz should come > patched already, and shouldn't need any quilt patch. > > Thoughts anyone? Is there reasons why this would be a valid way to do > things?
It's already caught by lintian as an error: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/patch-modifying-debian-files.html In any case it's definitely not a good idea and it breaks when you use 3.0 (quilt). I don't know of any valid usage of such a feature. Even when derivatives want different packaging rules, we have a proper interface for this and it's dpkg-vendor. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- 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/20120307095257.ga12...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
