Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.0.3 Severity: wishlist Hi,
I'm sure this has been brought up before, but I don't see a bug for it. Currently the management of vendor-specific patches is a bit suboptimal in the case where there are common (base) patches in addition to some vendor ones. One can easily imagine this occurring when, for example, there are bug fix patches which will apply to all builds in addition to some UX customisation patches that may be vendor specific. Maintainers have to duplicate all of the base patches in their series files, which is both error prone and a waste of effort. Conceptually the base patches (base.series) would be applied first and then the vendor-specific patches on top of these (debian.series). I realise that quilt doesn't support multiple series files, so the implementation wouldn't be straightforward, but nevertheless I think this would be a valuable thing to do. Cheers, Iain -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii base-files 6.4 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii binutils 2.21.52.20110606-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.0.3 Dpkg perl modules ii make 3.81-8.1 An utility for Directing compilati ii patch 2.6.1-2 Apply a diff file to an original ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 11.5 Informational list of build-essent ii fakeroot 1.16-1 tool for simulating superuser priv ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.6.0-6 GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.4 [c-compiler] 4.4.6-6 GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.5 [c-compiler] 4.5.3-3 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.6 [c-compiler] 4.6.1-1 GNU C compiler ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii gpgv 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - signature veri ii libalgorithm-merge-perl 0.08-2 Perl module for three-way merge of Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: ii debian-keyring 2011.03.03 GnuPG keys of Debian Developers -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
