Bug#1077650: Binary build patching insanity

2024-08-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: tags -1 +patch Hey, On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 02:28:55PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 07:55:32PM +0900, Samuel Henrique wrote: >> >>We are quite flexible with getting external contributions to the curl package, >>the repository is in the debian org on salsa and you

Bug#1077650: Binary build patching insanity

2024-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Samuel! On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 07:55:32PM +0900, Samuel Henrique wrote: > >> Severity: serious > >Could you please clarify why you think this severity is appropriate? >I'm tempted to lower it. It's *very* different from normal packaging practice, just about the opposite of the "principle of

Bug#1077650: Binary build patching insanity

2024-07-31 Thread Samuel Henrique
Hello Steve, > Severity: serious Could you please clarify why you think this severity is appropriate? I'm tempted to lower it. > I'm maintaining a distro derived from Debian, and we've just tripped > over issues in building the curl package with more patches applied. I take it this happened bec

Bug#1077650: Binary build patching insanity

2024-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: curl Version: 7.88.1-10+deb12u5 Severity: serious Hi, I'm maintaining a distro derived from Debian, and we've just tripped over issues in building the curl package with more patches applied. I've just found the code in debian/rules that calls quilt at build time to mess around with the so