On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 07:01:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >... > Indeed, from my PoV we would ideally fix this issue in dpatch. However, > we need to handle backports as well and that puts quilt back the table > as well. I am not quite sure that I want to backport quilt and dpatch > to provide further debhelper backports.
Why not? dpatch is a mostly obsolete Debian native package, most recent upload 2015. quilt still has some upstream development, but nothing big. It might still be easier to revert the change in dh-autoreconf, but dpatch and quilt are not packages where I would see any potential problems with making and supporting a backport. > Thanks, > ~Niels cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed