Control: severity -1 normal
Johannes Schauer writes ("Bug#848901: dgit: please allow deleting files with
3.0 (quilt)"):
> dgit: cannot represent change: deleted: foobar
> dgit: HEAD has changes to .orig[s] which are not representable by `3.0
> (quilt)'
>
> This is odd because when I just used git-format-patch and put the result
> in debian/patches then dpkg-source is able to delete files just fine.
>
> Maybe dgit could use this feature to support file deletion?
Hrm. I think some versions of dpkg-source `accidentally' support
deletion, because they simply feed the diff to whatever version of
patch is in use. We have accidentally produced incompatible source
packages this way (ie unintentionally created source packages which
were un-extractable on oldstable).
But I don't think it is dgit's role to police this kind of thing.
I will fix the check to align with my understanding of dpkg-source.
Can you please tell me:
- instructions for fetching and identifying your git HEAD
- enough information to find any applicable .orig tarballs
- what exact dgit rune you typed
?
Then I can be sure to repro (and fix) exactly the right problem.
Thanks,
Ian.
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