> debian/source/format likely still has quilt as the package format.

No, the package is so old that it doesn't even have the debian/source/format 
file. 
Hmmm... maybe I should start all over from scratch?
> But, but, but.. why are you removing the patch system and manually
> patching the upstream source?  This is precisely the whole point of
> quilt, and a patch system is the preferred method of modifying the
> upstream source in Debian packages 
As said before, 

> I got an old Debian source package that is no longer exist in the
> repo any more, and want to pick up from there. 
The package was removed because the upstream was long gone. I want to pick it 
up and become the upstream.


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