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Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???



Hi,

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:35:23PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > * Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>, 2012-01-18, 22:18:
> > >Since we are at quilt 3.0 bashing: Maybe you can give me a
> > >rational why I *ALWAYS* have to type in
> > >	export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches
> > >before working with debian source packages?  And when I forget it
> > >I get hurt by quilt?
> > 
> > dpkg (>= 1.15.8.6) creates the .pc/.quilt_series file. So no, not always.
> 
> It is sometimes removed. It is still unclear to me when/why that happens,
> guess that dh_quilt_unpatch may be the responsible for that.

You should not use dh_quilt_patch / dh_quilt_unpatch with a "3.0 (quilt)"
source package. dpkg-source takes care of everything, you should not
apply/unapply patches in debian/rules.

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