Package: elasticsearch-curator Version: 3.5.1-1 When trying to build this package with "debuild -uc -us", it throws an error that is caused by the debian/patches/ of this version. Of what I understand, the patch is being applied in the previous version, but patches/ was not removed in the current version. Thus, when trying to build, dpkg-buildpackage is trying to apply patch that is already applied and throws an error.:
dpkg-source: info: the patch has fuzz which is not allowed, or is malformed dpkg-source: info: if patch 'setup.py-read-README-utf-8' is correctly applied by quilt, use 'quilt refresh' to update it dpkg-source: error: LC_ALL=C patch -t -F 0 -N -p1 -u -V never -g0 -E -b -B .pc/setup.py-read-README-utf-8/ --reject-file=- < source.orig.hFq4PZ/debian/patches/setup.py-read-README-utf-8 gave error exit status 1 Seems like removing debian/patches/ folder preserves the changes of the patch and is able to build successfully. (running 'quilt refresh' didn't solve the problem) I am using "debuild 2.15.3" and "lintian v2.5.30+deb8u4"