Hi! Ondřej Surý schrieb:
At minimum, if you don't want to use a patch system, you should additionally delete the .pc/ and debian/patches/ directories.Removing all patches is also _not_ correct way to convert package for backports. You may reintroduce security flaw, bugs, etc., etc., etc. This is very bad advice and you should not remove patches and random when backporting a package, since you may end up with entirely different package than in testing.
I was thinking the same thing, but got told, that the new source format also creates some empty quilt templates, even if you don't use any patches. So by removing them nothing get's lost (in these cases).
Best regards, Alexander