This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. guillem pushed a commit to branch main in repository dpkg.
View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=20bb8fee081adcedfd1f7ce46688d2df3d66f484 commit 20bb8fee081adcedfd1f7ce46688d2df3d66f484 Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Sat Jan 17 14:52:18 2026 +0100 Dpkg::Source::Package::V2: Switch generated patch to be git formatted Instead of generating a patch with the deb822 header, generate them following the git format (even though the hunks will still contain «diff» instead of «diff --git» markers, for example). --- scripts/Dpkg/Source/Package/V2.pm | 30 ++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/Dpkg/Source/Package/V2.pm b/scripts/Dpkg/Source/Package/V2.pm index 053dddae1..0e5429c3b 100644 --- a/scripts/Dpkg/Source/Package/V2.pm +++ b/scripts/Dpkg/Source/Package/V2.pm @@ -696,22 +696,26 @@ AUTOGEN_HEADER count => 1, ); return '' if not defined $ch_info; - my $header = Dpkg::Control->new(type => CTRL_UNKNOWN); - $header->{'Description'} = "<short summary of the patch>\n"; - $header->{'Description'} .= -"TODO: Put a short summary on the line above and replace this paragraph + + my $patch_date = POSIX::strftime('%b, %d %Y %T %z', gmtime); + my $text = <<"HEADER"; +From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: $ch_info->{'Maintainer'} +Date: $patch_date +Subject: [PATCH] <short summary of the patch> + +TODO: Put a short summary on the line above and replace this paragraph with a longer explanation of this change. Complete the meta-information with other relevant fields (see below for details). To make it easier, the information below has been extracted from the changelog. Adjust it or drop -it.\n"; - $header->{'Description'} .= $ch_info->{'Changes'} . "\n"; - $header->{'Author'} = $ch_info->{'Maintainer'}; - my $yyyy_mm_dd = POSIX::strftime('%Y-%m-%d', gmtime); +it. + +HEADER - my $text; - $text = "$header"; run_vendor_hook('extend-patch-header', \$text, $ch_info); - $text .= "\n--- + + $text .= <<'TRAILER'; +--- The information above should follow the Patch Tagging Guidelines, please checkout https://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ to learn about the format. Here are templates for supplementary fields that you might want to add: @@ -723,7 +727,9 @@ Bug-Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/bugs/<bugnumber> Forwarded: (no|not-needed|<patch-forwarded-url>) Applied-Upstream: <version>, (<commit-url>|commit:<commid-id>) Reviewed-By: <name and email of someone who approved/reviewed the patch> -Last-Update: $yyyy_mm_dd\n\n"; + +TRAILER + return $text; } -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
