Hi Alexander & Ondřej, > > 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. > Of course, if there are patches they should applied to the bpo package too. > So converting the package back to quilt is neccessary. If you extract a 3.0 (quilt) package using dpkg-source, it will also apply the patches for you. If you then change the format to 1.0 and rebuild the source package, you'll get all the changes from the debian/patches/ in the diff.gz. Removing the patches directory will thus only prevent the changes from being present in the diff twice (though they will not be applied twice AFAICS). Gr. Matthijs
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