On 2012-02-25 10:24, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
| Hello,
| 
| On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Jari Aalto wrote:
| > I've attached 90_fix_makefiles.patch for further study.
| > 
| > dpkg reports during build:
| [...]
| >     dpkg-source: info: applying 
04_fix_bug_380210_fix_export_and_export_utils_detection.patch
| >     dpkg-source: error: expected [ +-] at start of line 45 of diff 
`easychem.git/debian/patches/90_fix_makefiles.patch'
|
| This doesn't mean anything (quilt/patch are lenient and accept slightly
| incorrect input) and dpkg-source is right. Line 45 of the file starts
| with a TAB instead of a space.
| 
| It should be space + TAB (since the TAB is the start of the content).
| 
| >  clean: FORCE
| >     -cd graph; make clean
| > @@ -38,21 +39,21 @@
| >     -rm $(OBJECTS) easychem
| 
| Those are the bad lines.

Well, dpkg can be stricter, but it would be much better if:

      - Dpkg accepted what can be don with quilt(1)
      - Wrote a warning instead of spooing with error.

After all, we manage patched with quilt, and if we can aply/deapply
them with it, so should dpkg during building packages[*[.

Jari

[*] with format "3.0 quilt"



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