Hi,
On 09/02/2025 17:16, Sven Joachim (@joachim-guest) wrote:
Sven Joachim pushed to branch debian-unstable at X Strike Force / driver /
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Commits:
dc58e83f by Sven Joachim at 2025-02-09T16:56:37+01:00
Switch to format 3.0 (quilt)
This ensures that there are no spurious changes to upstream sources in
the source package, as dpkg-source aborts early. Besides, this format
is pretty much standard in Debian these days.
The downside is that any cherry-picks from upstream commits need to be
exported as patches, but I guess we can live with that. There has
been only one such cherry-pick in the last six years which was already
exported as a patch rather than applied directly.
gbp-pq can help with this. You can do something like:
$ gbp-pq import # this will create a branch and apply the quilt patches on top,
as individual commits
$ git cherry-pick ...
$ gbp-pq export # creates quilt patches from the commits
Maybe we could agree on such a workflow for more/all X packages.
Cheers,
Emilio
