Package: xserver-xorg-video-neomagic Version: 1:1.2.2-2 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 xserver-xorg-video-neomagic does break. To reproduce the problem you can do this: $ apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-neomagic $ mkdir -p xserver-xorg-video-neomagic-1.2.2/debian/source $ echo "3.0 (quilt)" >xserver-xorg-video-neomagic-1.2.2/debian/source/format $ dpkg-source -b xserver-xorg-video-neomagic-1.2.2 $ dpkg-source -x xserver-xorg-video-neomagic_1.2.2-2.dsc $ cd xserver-xorg-video-neomagic-1.2.2 && 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-1:1.2.2-2 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 xserver-xorg-video-neomagic, one of the patches is broken. It has probably been hand edited without updating the numbers at the start of the hunk. Please refresh all patches (quilt refresh) to make sure that they are correct (and verify that the above procedure now works). Cheers, [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
