Package: quilt Version: 0.48-7 Severity: important
Hi! Out of fun I just tried to create a quilt patchset on a binary file. I didn't expected it to work, but to my surprise I didn't got any error or warning message. What I did was basically the following: quilt new test ; quilt add $binaryfile ; cp $differentbinaryfile $binaryfile ; quilt refresh and voila! I had a "patches/test" file. However, looking at it, it just contained "Binary files a/tutorial-part3.map and b/tutorial-part3.map differ" which is the output of diff. I would have expected quilt to actually error out. Looking a bit further, found that diff actually exits with a non-zero exit code, when diffing binary files: $ diff $differentbinaryfile $binaryfile > /dev/null ; echo $? 2 Which makes we wonder, if quilt actually minds the exit code of the diff it calls. Best regards, Alexander -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages quilt depends on: ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii diffstat 1.53-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii patch 2.6-2 Apply a diff file to an original quilt recommends no packages. Versions of packages quilt suggests: pn graphviz <none> (no description available) pn procmail <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
