Package: h5utils Version: 1.12-1 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 h5utils does break. To reproduce the problem you can do this: $ apt-get source h5utils $ mkdir -p h5utils-1.12/debian/source $ echo "3.0 (quilt)" >h5utils-1.12/debian/source/format $ dpkg-source -b h5utils-1.12 $ dpkg-source -x h5utils_1.12-1.dsc $ cd h5utils-1.12 && 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-1.12-1 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 h5utils, it fails to build when the patches are already applied as quilt push -a will exit with error code 2. To avoid this kind of mistakes, you should really not reinvent the wheel and simply use /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make provided by quilt (include it and add the proper target dependencies). Cheers, [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel
