Package: libxcomposite Version: 1:0.4.0-3 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 libxcomposite does break. To reproduce the problem you can do this: $ apt-get source libxcomposite $ mkdir -p libxcomposite-0.4.0/debian/source $ echo "3.0 (quilt)" >libxcomposite-0.4.0/debian/source/format $ dpkg-source -b libxcomposite-0.4.0 $ dpkg-source -x libxcomposite_0.4.0-3.dsc $ cd libxcomposite-0.4.0 && 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-1:0.4.0-3 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 libxcomposite, it contains changes in .diff.gz that is either not wanted or that should be in a separate quilt patch instead of there. For fbi: Make.config ends up in the debian diff and is recreated by clean target before patch application For libdrm: it remove Changelog in .diff.gz, before it leads to empty files, now it's removed (and the build fails later) For libxcomposite: quilt patches depends on changes in the diff.gz and hence the quilt patches do not apply anymore when the prerequesite patch ends up at the end of the series. Cheers, [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
