Bug#579012: dpkg-dev: Don't auto generate patches for quilt format.

2010-05-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Raphael Hertzog [2010.05.28.1119 +0200]: > No, local-options can be in the VCS, it will just not be in the > resulting source package. Doh! But then I suggest a different name than local-*, since that is kinda reserved for "changes made locally that are independent of Debian". Why no

Bug#579012: dpkg-dev: Don't auto generate patches for quilt format.

2010-05-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 28 May 2010, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Raphael Hertzog [2010.04.25.2202 +0200]: > > It's still the right behaviour for any source package that we distribute > > IMO. It should always be possible to modify any file and be able to > > rebuild the source package without having an e

Bug#579012: dpkg-dev: Don't auto generate patches for quilt format.

2010-05-28 Thread martin f krafft
Before Raphaƫl showed me this report, I had written my own. I include it here simply because it goes a step further than the quilt format and advocates aborting in the presence of any changes outside debian/*: An option like --refuse-debian-patch (v3 mainly) or --refuse-non-debian-changes (mor

Bug#579012: dpkg-dev: Don't auto generate patches for quilt format.

2010-05-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Raphael Hertzog [2010.04.25.2202 +0200]: > It's still the right behaviour for any source package that we distribute > IMO. It should always be possible to modify any file and be able to > rebuild the source package without having an error. > > Thus if I add such an option it would onl

Bug#579012: dpkg-dev: Don't auto generate patches for quilt format.

2010-04-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > It's currently auto creating patches for things that changed > compared to the upstream version. I find it rather annoying, > because most of the time it's something left behind that just > needed to be cleaned up, like a .orig or .rej file or somethi

Bug#579012: dpkg-dev: Don't auto generate patches for quilt format.

2010-04-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.7.1 Severity: wishlist Hi, It's currently auto creating patches for things that changed compared to the upstream version. I find it rather annoying, because most of the time it's something left behind that just needed to be cleaned up, like a .orig or .rej file or