On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:52:57AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 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.
Not exactly the same thing, but for backporting for various releases we (NeuroDebian) quite often have to adjust the Debian packaging itself, but still want to have everything stored in a single source package. And we do store these patches in debian/patches. However, they are not applied at build-time. Instead we have a backporting script that generates a new source package with the changes applied (using dedicated per-release series files). I submitted that script as a potential addition to the devscripts package some time ago. Michael -- Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de -- 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/20120307101744.GB1649@meiner
