Your message dated Tue, 25 May 2010 09:19:18 +0200
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and subject line Release goal 3.0-quilt-by-default is dropped
has caused the Debian Bug report #482700,
regarding xconq: FTBFS when converted to new source format 3.0 (quilt)
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Package: xconq
Version: 7.4.1-4
Severity: minor
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 xconq does break. To reproduce the
problem you can do this:
$ apt-get source xconq
$ sed -i -e '/^Source:/ aFormat: 3.0 (quilt)' xconq-7.4.1/debian/control
$ dpkg-source -b xconq-7.4.1
$ dpkg-source -x xconq_7.4.1-4.dsc
$ cd xconq-7.4.1 && 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-7.4.1-4 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 xconq, the patch system employed considers all files in
debian/patches/ to be patches (even the "series" file or the
".dpkg-source-applied" stamp file created by dpkg-source -x on a 3.0
(quilt) source package).
I suggest switching to a more common patch system like quilt (you can rely
on /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make to get proper rules for debian/rules). Not
that any other patch system would do as well if they use an explicit
list (like dpatch/quilt) or only consider files with a .diff or .patch extension
(like simple-patchsys from CDBS).
Cheers,
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00004.html
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Raphael Hertzog
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Hello,
as announced in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/05/msg00010.html
the dpkg team no longer has any plan to switch the default source format
to "3.0 (quilt)" and as such this bug is meaningless.
However you have to create a debian/source/format file and be explicit
about the format that you want. That file will become mandatory in the
future. You are still highly encouraged to use one of the newer formats:
either "3.0 (quilt)" or "3.0 (native)".
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-debian-source-format.html
Thanks for your work.
Regards,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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