tag 538567 + wontfix thanks On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:54:40PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Package: tzdata > Version: 2009j-1 > Severity: wishlist > Usertags: 3.0-quilt-by-default > > To prepare a possible switch to the new source package format "3.0 > (quilt)" [1], I converted all source packages and rebuilt the packages > afterwards to see what breaks, and tzdata does break. To reproduce the > problem you can do this: > $ apt-get source tzdata > $ mkdir -p tzdata-2009j/debian/source > $ echo "3.0 (quilt)" >tzdata-2009j/debian/source/format > $ dpkg-source -b tzdata-2009j > $ dpkg-source -x tzdata_2009j-1.dsc > $ cd tzdata-2009j && debuild -us -uc > > In this process, if the .diff.gz contains changes to upstream files, > dpkg-source will have created a corresponding patch in > debian/patches/debian-changes-2009j-1 and will have registered that > patch in a quilt series (debian/patches/series, it is created if needed). > All the patches listed in the "series" file are applied directly during > the extraction (dpkg-source -x). quilt itself is used if available (and > will thus lead to the creation of the .pc directory), otherwise > dpkg-source applies the patches by itself. For more information about the > new source package format see the manual page dpkg-source(1). > > In the case of tzdata, patches can't be applied at extraction time > since real sources to be patched are inside another tarball that is not > unpacked. Please consider switching away from such a setup to a more > traditional approach where the real uptream sources are shipped as > .orig.tar.gz. >
Given the upstream format (flat format without top directory), we can't get out on the tar in tar format, so we will stick to the current source format. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
