Ian Jackson writes ("Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories"): > I think you need to be more explicit about the implications for `3.0 > (quilt)' format packages. Something like: > > If the git tree contains debian/format specifying `3.0 (quilt)', > the git tree must also contain debian/patches/series and all the > patch files contained within it. Furthermore, the tree should be > in the `patches applied' state. (This means that every change to > upstream files is represented twice: once in the contents of that > very file in the git tree, and once as a hunk in one of the > debian/patches. These two representations must be in step.)
It now seems like people are saying that patches-unapplied git trees work with dpkg-buildpackage. In which case the text above needs to explicitly deal with that possibility. What a complicated variety of different kinds of mess we have all made. (And I'm definitely including myself here. dgit's .pcs, I'm looking at you.) Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21603.28647.404446.992...@chiark.greenend.org.uk