Control: ressign -1 libdpkg-perl Control: merge 950142 -1 On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 21:31:21 +0200, Jiri Palecek wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.20.0+nmu2~1.gbpcd9614 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch
> while building some of my packages, I noticed they were built without > patches applied. Further investigation in the code showed that it was > caused by dpkg-source --before-build carrying on silently if the first > patch could't be applied, eg. when the series was partially applied, or > the patch itself was somehow defective. It seems this behaviour was a > legacy from package format 2 and IMHO is totally unneeded with quilt. I > therefore suggest to apply this patch, which I've used for several > months now without problems. It relegates the issue of deciding when to > apply patches to quilt. Unfortunately that's not possible, as people expect to be able to build packages w/o having used quilt to apply them, for example when they store a source with patches applied in a VCS. Thanks, Guillem
