Raphael Hertzog writes:
> In the case of netcat, the quilt series contains patches that
> modify files in the debian directory. You shouldn't have to dynamically
> patch the files in the debian directory since its content is
> provided by the .diff.gz (or the new .debian.tar.gz in the new format).
The reasoning for this was that
- The manual page (nc.1) was added by Debian
- a couple of the quilt patches add new options which
are logically separate from those in other patches
So, additions to nc.1 were placed in whichever patch added the
documented feature.
I am in the process of converting everything to git-buildpackage,
so this problem will go away. For lenny, I'd like to keep the
format as it is so that the patch series for -openbsd (new) can
be compared to the existing one in -traditional.
Immediately after that I will start uploading from git (AIUI,
until we can really upload 3.0 source packages, this will result
in a big ugly .diff.gz, which I would not consider fit for release
in the case of such a heavily modified package as netcat). I'll
close these bugs whenever that is.
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