[email protected] wrote: > Package: libdrm > Version: 2.4.11-1 > 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 libdrm does break. To reproduce the > problem you can do this: > $ apt-get source libdrm > $ mkdir -p libdrm-2.4.11/debian/source > $ echo "3.0 (quilt)" >libdrm-2.4.11/debian/source/format > $ dpkg-source -b libdrm-2.4.11 > $ dpkg-source -x libdrm_2.4.11-1.dsc > $ cd libdrm-2.4.11 && 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-2.4.11-1 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 libdrm, it contains changes in .diff.gz > that is either not wanted or that should be in a separate quilt > patch instead of there. > > For libdrm: it remove Changelog in .diff.gz, before it leads to empty > files, now it's removed (and the build fails later) >
I can reproduce the problem but I don't understand what's going on. Could you clarify? thanks, Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
