On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:53 PM, 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?
I have wanted to do this outside of Debian and got annoyed when the package I was patching got switched to dpkg-source v3, preventing me from doing the same thing. -- 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 Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6fh5hsfdymzsdujvt1x9hbkwjk9uhyjj0nhsotgrgt...@mail.gmail.com
