Package: spatialite Version: 2.3.0-1 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 spatialite does break. To reproduce the problem you can do this: $ apt-get source spatialite $ mkdir -p spatialite-2.3.0/debian/source $ echo "3.0 (quilt)" >spatialite-2.3.0/debian/source/format $ dpkg-source -b spatialite-2.3.0 $ dpkg-source -x spatialite_2.3.0-1.dsc $ cd spatialite-2.3.0 && 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-2.3.0-1 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 spatialite, patches can't be applied at extraction time since real sources to be patched are inside another tarball that is not unpacked. Please consider switching away from such a setup to a more traditional approach where the real uptream sources are shipped as .orig.tar.gz. 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