On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > On Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:27, Martin Quinson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > quilt is currently used by 70 debian package to handle the delta between > > the debian version and the upstream one. With time, this number tends to > > grow. > > > > Unfortunately, this good news induce some extra load on my shoulder. Since > > we are listed in the build-dependency of a lot of packages, we shouldn't > > list too much other packages ourselves in order to reduce the possibility > > of circular build-dependencies which are naturally evil. > > IMHO quilt has nothing to do in the build dependencies in the first place. > Why > doesn't a simple for loop that simply applies the patches in order with GNU > patch suffice? In case people want to preserve the quilt metadata for easier > hacking, I would propose to either use the existing patch wrapper in the loop > (bin/patch-wrapper), or to create a script that performs the equivalent of > ``quilt push -a''. I have nothing against adding such a script to the quilt > cvs, so that we'll keep it in sync with metadata changes. This script could > be packages independently; problem solved.
Indeed. The solution is to provide such a script. It only needs to be able to apply all the patches and to remove them in the clean target. Thanks for the idea, Mt. -- Quand on étrangle un Schtroumpf, il devient de quelle couleur ?
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