Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#1031793: dgit: Treat single-debian-patch as implying
--quilt=single"):
> How about having single-debian-patch imply --quilt=single in the absence
> of any other setting or command line argument for the quilt mode?
> Then in the docs we would say that it is a good idea to use only the git
> configuration value, but that this is another option if you prefer it.
>
> This is still better than the previous situation because dgit will undo
> some problems created by single-debian-patch (right?).
The usual reason for eschewing in-tree directions about quilt format
is that the tree can't (mustn't) tell you if it's patches-applied or
not. I think it would be OK for the tree to influence *how* patches
are made (ie, choose between --quilt=linear, --quilt=single, etc.)
There is also the fact that it would have an effect on dgit's
behaviour for an NMUer, but I think that's OK for this.
So your idea has merit.
However, do we want to have people put single-debian-patch in the
source tree ? That has such weird dpkg-source behaviours.
Ideally we would do something that would influence dgit, but not
dpkg-source. So maybe we could put some *other* dropping in the
source tree?
Ian.
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