Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.19.7 Severity: normal If a package has single-debian-patch in debian/source/options, quilt is not supposed to be used (it is technically still used because there's no quilt-less non-native format, and 3.0 has many upsides besides the downside of quilt). Yet, the produced single patch still receives DEP3 headers.
These headers won't ever be filled out (there's no chance to do so without employing additional steps), are likely to contain invalid/outdated data, and tend to leak some state of intermediate development of the package (such as "try 17", personal notes, profanity, etc). These headers pick random pieces of such state, and not even update those bits in subsequent invocations of dpkg-buildpackage -S unless some part of the upstream tree got changed again. And, the quiltage is not visible to modern tools such as git -- it's a mere implementation detail. Thus, these headers do no good, and can do harm -- and in any case, they're spam. Thus, please suppress these headers if single-debian-patch is used. Thanks for your work! Meow. -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.2.1-00036-gf2c1d208af28 (SMP w/64 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii binutils 2.32.51.20190707-1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9.2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii make 4.2.1-1.2 ii patch 2.7.6-5 ii perl 5.28.1-6 ii tar 1.30+dfsg-6 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1 Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 12.6 ii clang-8 [c-compiler] 1:8.0.1~+rc4-1 ii fakeroot 1.23-1 ii gcc 4:9-20181127-1 ii gcc-9 [c-compiler] 9.1.0-10 ii gnupg 2.2.17-3 ii gpgv 2.2.17-3 ii libalgorithm-merge-perl 0.08-3 Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: ii debian-keyring 2019.06.25 -- no debconf information
