Re: Bug#581330: narval: FTBFS: No patches in series

[xavier grave <xavier.grave@ipno.in2p3.fr>]

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Le 12/05/2010 12:42, Ludovic Brenta a écrit :
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> It just occurred to me that it might be better not to use quilt at all. 
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> Currently, you copy .gpr files from the installed Debian packages and patch
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> them locally with quilt from the upstream Makefile but only if the upstream
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> Makefile detects that it is running on Debian.  A better approach might be
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> to:
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> - ship the patched .gpr files directly in the debian/ directory
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> - make the upstream makefile distribution-agnostic
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> - make the upstream makefile independent on quilt
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> - remove the build-dependency on quilt from debian/control
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>   (this build-dependency can lead people to assume the Debian
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>   packaging scripts use quilt when, really, only the upstream
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>   Makefile does).

I don't see an immediate way of making upstream sources
distribution-agnostic, but I think this is a good way to proceed. I will
try to find a way to do so. It will delay the bug fix, I hope I will
have something by the end of the week.
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