Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Russ Allbery writes:
>> debian/source/local-options and debian/source/local-patch-header are >> included in the working Git repository for the package but are not >> included in the source package as uplaoded to Debian. (Yes, this means >> that they're somewhat directly contrary to the whole point of dgit. >> However, they're the best available mechanism to use a single patch for >> all changes with the 3.0 (quilt) package format if one doesn't want to >> attempt to track changes as separate patches.) > So dpkg-source strips these options files out when it builds the > package ? Correct. > Surely then if someone does an NMU based on the source package the > "single debian patch"ness will be lost ? Correct, and that's partly the point. It means that the maintainer changes are collected into one patch, but NMU patches are kept separate from that one patch. (So I guess I misspoke -- it's not exactly like the 1.0 format patch situation. It's like that for the maintainer, but maintains separate NMU patches.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/874n9jl4em....@windlord.stanford.edu
