Package: minicom Version: 2.1-10 Severity: normal
the minicom packaging includes a number of patches in debian/patches which fail to apply cleanly during a pbuilder process. (maybe because they've been adopted upstream?) You can see this from (for example) the results of the powerpc buildd: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=minicom&ver=2.1-10&arch=powerpc&stamp=1131125654&file=log&as=raw it looks like this: ... beginning of build log ... cat `ls -r debian/patches/*.diff` /dev/null | patch -RNtp1 -r debian/rejected --no-backup-if-mismatch patching file src/window.c Unreversed patch detected! Skipping patch. 3 out of 3 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file debian/rejected patching file man/minicom.1 Unreversed patch detected! Skipping patch. 8 out of 8 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file debian/rejected ... many more hunks ignored ... this is bad-looking output for folks trying to build the package themselves. if minicom were to be switched to use dpatch for building (for example), the individual patches would refuse to apply and the build process catch the error directly. This would make it pretty simple to keep things up to date. if the patches aren't needed any more, they should be dropped, right? Regards, --dkg -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages minicom depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand Versions of packages minicom recommends: ii lrzsz 0.12.21-4 Tools for zmodem/xmodem/ymodem fil -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
