On 29/10/13 12:14, Ximin Luo wrote: > Package: devscripts > Version: 2.13.4 > Severity: important > > It does not make sense to build or clean an unpatched source tree, since the > applied patches are considered strictly *part of the source package*. However, > `debuild build/clean`, and probably many other tools, still allows this to > happen without any warning. > > This is partly a fault of policy which is very loose on what is a correct > state > to initiate build actions from; I will file a separate bug for that too. > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html >
To clarify, I'm talking about the source format 3.0 (quilt), where the application of patches is considered to be the responsibility of dpkg-source rather than the build process itself. If this basic check isn't done, bugs like this [1] happen to developers that don't know about all the precise details of how build infrastructure works. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728097 -- GPG: 4096R/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
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