Hi Osamu! I am afraid you misunderstand my bug report.
What I report in the bug report is the online version of maint-guide (http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-modify.en.html#s-quiltrc) whose version as written there is 1.2.25-svn. I first reported this to Josip Rodin per e-mail. He said that I should file a bug report. So, I looked at Debian guidelines on how to report a bug: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting. It says that I should use reportbug. So, I installed it and reported the problem accordingly using reportbug. Unfortunately, reportbug added my GNU/Linux Ubuntu 9.04 system information that has nothing to do with the online version of maint-guide. And, I am just a GNU/Linux Ubuntu user. At first, I was reluctant to go through the hassle of reporting a bug. But, since Josip Rodin has his e-mail on the online document, I thought: "ah, why not just drop the author a comment?" Therefore, whether this problem is fixed or not is also not my problem. -- Best regards, Eus (FSF member #4445) In this digital era, where computing technology is pervasive, your freedom depends on the software controlling those computing devices. Join free software movement today! It is free as in freedom, not as in free beer! Join: http://www.fsf.org/ On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 00:36 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi Eus, > > We do not document all backword compatibility issues in this document. > You certainly killed my time with this report to let me check few > things. (Original Bug #60960 report is OK.) > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 12:07:20PM +0100, Eus wrote: > > Package: maint-guide > > Version: 1.2.25-svn > > Followup-For: Bug #609607 > > > > > > In http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-modify.en.html#s-quiltrc, > > -z "$QUILT_PATCHES" always returns false in quilt 0.46 in GNU/Linux > > Ubuntu 9.04 because if env var QUILT_PATCHES is empty when quilt is > > invoked, quilt will set it to the default: patches/, > > Wait a moment. Ubuntu developer should use relatively recent its releases. > Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) <<< You are using this ... too old. > Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) > Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) <<< You may use this in some case. > Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) <<< This is what you should use!!! > Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) <<< This may be your alternative > > When reporting to Debian, please at least check package situation via > changelog. > > Although we should be nice to downstream Ubuntu users, it is not our > primary responsibility to take care outdated Ubuntu system. Debian's > current release has quilt 0.48-7. > > Anyway, we document new dh7 features in this maint-guide. Unless Ubuntu > backported debhelper to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), this documents > does not apply anyway. I guess Ubuntu chose to update debhelper but did > not update quilt. The fact is... > > quilt (0.48-6) unstable; urgency=low > > * The new algorithm that makes quilt lookup parent directories for > .pc/.quilt_{patches,series} lead to the failure of test/setup.test > when run in the Debian source package since $QUILT_PATCHES points > to debian/patches when the test script expect it to be "patches". > Avoid this by forcing QUILT_PATCHES in the test script (patch > debian/patches/fix-test-setup) but suggest upstream to hardcode locations > in quilt setup. Closes: #573689 > ... > > So Eus' report will not be addressed. > > Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
