On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:07:58PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Thank you for your patient explanations of the underlying
> issues.
It's threads like these which restore my faith in humanity,
or the subset of humanity represented by -devel at least.
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Raphael Hertzog writes:
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Yes, that could be done. It needs to be done by every user, for
> > every patch that they ever create for consumption with
> > ‘dpkg-source’. Which is why I was hoping for a way to fix it in
> > one place, for ‘dpkg-source’ spec
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 07:48:27PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> More specifically, I'm not the one using Quilt *at all*. The patches
> are created from my VCS, stored in the ‘debian/patches/’ directory
> separate from the upstream source, so there isn't anything for them to
> be applied to until the
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog writes:
>
> > On Fri, 06 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > More specifically, I'm not the one using Quilt *at all*. The patches
> > > are created from my VCS, stored in the ‘debian/patches/’ directory
> > > separate from the upstream source
Raphael Hertzog writes:
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> > More specifically, I'm not the one using Quilt *at all*. The patches
> > are created from my VCS, stored in the ‘debian/patches/’ directory
> > separate from the upstream source, so there isn't anything for them to
> > be applie
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> More specifically, I'm not the one using Quilt *at all*. The patches
> are created from my VCS, stored in the ‘debian/patches/’ directory
> separate from the upstream source, so there isn't anything for them to
> be applied to until the package gets built wi
Ben Finney writes:
> Raphael Hertzog writes:
>
> > Quilt make it easy to refresh any patch to the expected format
> > with "quilt refresh -p1" (or -pab).
>
> I'm a complete neophyte at Quilt, and am using it only to apply
> patches that I've already created elsewhere. Can I expect ‘quilt
> ref
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Furthermore, I believe that consistency is important and that we're
> > better with all patches formatted in the same way. Quilt make it
> > easy to refresh any patch to the expected format with "quilt refresh
> > -p1" (or -pab).
>
> I'm a complete neophy
Raphael Hertzog writes:
> Supporting multiple -pX would increase the complexity of the
> associated code in a manner that is mostly incompatible with the
> various checks that have always been built into dpkg-source (and
> that were only applied on .diff). It's enough error-prone to mimick
> the
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Note however that while dpkg-source parses correctly series files
> > with explicit options used for patch application (stored on each
> > line after the patch filename and one or more spaces), it does
> > ignore those options and always expect patches tha
Paul Wise writes:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > My first impression is that, if buxy can't handle a ‘-p0’ patch,
> > that's a bug.
My apologies, I thought ‘buxy’ was perhaps the name of some service on
the Debian project infrastructure.
> The reason you cannot use -p0
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Paul Wise writes:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Ben Finney
>> wrote:
>>
>> > How can I reliably inform the Debian packaging tools that my quilt
>> > patches are in ‘patch -p0’ format?
>>
>> You don't want to use -p0 otherwise you'll ge
Paul Wise writes:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Ben Finney
> wrote:
>
> > How can I reliably inform the Debian packaging tools that my quilt
> > patches are in ‘patch -p0’ format?
>
> You don't want to use -p0 otherwise you'll get bugs from buxy about
> not supporting dpkg source package
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> How can I reliably inform the Debian packaging tools that my quilt
> patches are in ‘patch -p0’ format?
You don't want to use -p0 otherwise you'll get bugs from buxy about
not supporting dpkg source package v3. I'm using this to generate my
pa
Michael Biebl writes:
> Or how will you rebuild packages with 3.0 (quilt) that already use
> dpatch or cdbs with simple-patchsys? (the latter would at least
> require to normalize all patches to -p1, […]).
The ‘quilt(1)’ manpage documents a ‘-p’ option:
-p n
Create a -p n style patc
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