Bug#680155: dpkg-source: detection of applied patches fails if first patch is reverted

2012-07-04 Thread David Bremner
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 08:11:48 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Just to confirm that we speak of the same thing... you have all patches > applied but you don't have the corresponding quilt metadata in ".pc". > When you build the source package, dpkg-source tries to apply all the > patches because i

Bug#680155: dpkg-source: detection of applied patches fails if first patch is reverted

2012-07-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Raphael, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I'm also not sure that there's any nicer solution... this "feature" has > been there to ease the transition between 1.0 and 3.0 (quilt) mainly. > I was not expecting that people would continue to create new packages > where patches would be pre-applied without

Bug#680155: dpkg-source: detection of applied patches fails if first patch is reverted

2012-07-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 03 Jul 2012, David Bremner wrote: > If the first patch in a 3.0 (quilt) series is reverted by later > patches in the series, then the heuristic used by dpkg-source to > detect if patches are applied fails. This might sound contrived, but > it can arise if e.g. patches are generated fr

Bug#680155: dpkg-source: detection of applied patches fails if first patch is reverted

2012-07-03 Thread David Bremner
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.3 Severity: wishlist If the first patch in a 3.0 (quilt) series is reverted by later patches in the series, then the heuristic used by dpkg-source to detect if patches are applied fails. This might sound contrived, but it can arise if e.g. patches are generated fro