On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Decklin Foster wrote: > 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
That's fine, but if you consider those as patchs to the upstream source ready to be merged, place your added manual page in the upstream hierarchy and not inside "debian". This will automatically fix those two bugs. > 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. Even after release, it's unlikely that all 3.0 formats will be accepted on ftp-master. In particular I don't expect the git format to be ready to go. However I hope that by then we'll have examples of tools to generate 3.0 (quilt) source packages directly from a git repository. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
