Raphael Hertzog writes: Hi,
> >> So please try it out, I built a package here: >> http://people.debian.org/~hertzog/packages/dpkg-dev_1.14.17_all.deb I've just did some tests on my 3 quilt-managed source packages (whichman, dictd and zapping). It seems format 2.0 doesn't work at all for such packages: LC_ALL=C dpkg-source --format=2.0 -b whichman-2.4 dpkg-source: info: using source format `2.0' dpkg-source: info: building whichman using existing ./whichman_2.4.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: warning: diff `whichman-2.4.orig.kHu7K8/debian/patches/series' doesn't contain any patch patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input. dpkg-source: failure: patch -s -t -F 0 -N -p1 -u -V never -g0 -b -z .dpkg-orig -E gave error exit status 2 Format "3.0 (quilt)" always create a debian/patches/debian-changes-*.diff file which reverts any changes made by other existing debian/patches files. Additionally it gives some warnings for whichman: LC_ALL=C dpkg-source --format="3.0 (quilt)" -b whichman-2.4 dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)' dpkg-source: info: building whichman using existing ./whichman_2.4.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file statduplcheck.c dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file statduplcheck.h dpkg-source: info: building whichman in whichman_2.4-4.debian.tar.gz dpkg-source: info: building whichman in whichman_2.4-4.dsc ...and fails with the following error for dictd: LC_ALL=C dpkg-source --format="3.0 (quilt)" -b dictd-1.10.10.dfsg dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)' dpkg-source: info: building dictd using existing ./dictd_1.10.10.dfsg.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: error: diff `dictd-1.10.10.dfsg.orig.Ly3JcL/debian/patches/colorit-bashisms.patch' patches file with no subdirectory ... because colorit-bashisms.patch contains: Index: dictd/colorit.in =================================================================== --- colorit.in 2007/09/29 18:57:47 1.7 +++ colorit.in 2008/02/08 10:59:15 1.8 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ I've also tried one non-quilt-managed package, and both format 2.0 and 3.0 worked as documented on it (2.0 created zz_debian-diff-auto which wasn't automatically applied, in contradiction to debian-changes*.diff from 3.0). Regards, robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
