Re: source format 3.0 upgrade

[Xavier Grave <grave@ipno.in2p3.fr>]

> Following the previous thread (I changed the subject so that the
> documentation link is easyer to find): I cannot see why all patches
> were not applied automatically. The build works on my machine with
> debuild, the build log says that glib22 patch was applied by
> dpkg-source. I send you the log so that you can compare.

Since I'm not using dpkg-source it's understandable that the patches are not
applied.

> I discovered quilt in
> 
> http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/howto/quilt.html#quilt_for_debian_
> maintainers
> 
> All I know about 3.0(quilt) source format is explained in
> http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0

Thanks for this pointer.

> If you use a recent version of dpkg, all happens as if
> QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt push -a
> was called right after the decompression of sources in the main
> directory.
> 
> Note that there are actually two formats, 3.0(quilt) for packages
> modifying an upstream (tar|bz2|?)ball and 3.0(native) for packages
> specific to debian, without upstream.
> 
> Be warned that any changes substing outside the debian/ directory will
> happily be stored as quilt patches by dpkg with only a warning in the
> log to alert you.

mtn status and mtn list unknown can be of some help also : we should see a
pacth modification or a new patch ?

> Hope this will be useful.
It is for me, thanks :)