On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:27:20AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > the "renamed debian/patches to debian/patch to avoid > > 3.0-quilt-by-default bug reports" > > changelog in latest iptables makes me uncomfortable... > > is it something we should all do eventually ? > > Definitely no. > > Some maintainers with complex build system might want to handle patches > separately and not let dpkg-source handle it, in that case it can make > sense. > > But in most cases, one should simply adapt the build system to be > compatible with the new source format 3.0 (quilt). It usually doesn't > involve many changes. > > In the case of iptables, I really don't think it was warranted to work > around in that way but since it's up to the maintainer... > > Cheers,
At least in one case, I change the series file on-fly at building time to create different flavors of the same lib with a different patchset. I roughly suspect this is not compatible with the 3.0 format, but it is also difficult to be auto-detected... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org