Package: freebsd-sendpr Version: 3.113+5.3-10 Severity: wishlist Usertags: 3.0-quilt-by-default
To prepare a possible switch to the new source package format "3.0 (quilt)" [1], I converted all source packages and rebuilt the packages afterwards to see what breaks, and freebsd-sendpr does break. To reproduce the problem you can do this: $ apt-get source freebsd-sendpr $ mkdir -p freebsd-sendpr-3.113+5.3/debian/source $ echo "3.0 (quilt)" >freebsd-sendpr-3.113+5.3/debian/source/format $ dpkg-source -b freebsd-sendpr-3.113+5.3 $ dpkg-source -x freebsd-sendpr_3.113+5.3-10.dsc $ cd freebsd-sendpr-3.113+5.3 && debuild -us -uc In this process, if the .diff.gz contains changes to upstream files, dpkg-source will have created a corresponding patch in debian/patches/debian-changes-3.113+5.3-10 and will have registered that patch in a quilt series (debian/patches/series, it is created if needed). All the patches listed in the "series" file are applied directly during the extraction (dpkg-source -x). quilt itself is used if available (and will thus lead to the creation of the .pc directory), otherwise dpkg-source applies the patches by itself. For more information about the new source package format see the manual page dpkg-source(1). In the case of freebsd-sendpr, patches can't be applied at extraction time since real sources to be patched are inside another tarball that is not unpacked. Please consider switching away from such a setup to a more traditional approach where the real uptream sources are shipped as .orig.tar.gz. Cheers, [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
