On Mon, 19 May 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
In that case, I fail to see why you are only interested in this information if the maintainer did not use quilt. Seems like you should be concerned about changes made to upstream, period, regardless of whether the changes are recorded in quilt or not. Am I missing something?
Yes. You are missing the fact that anybody who inspects a package will inspect the debian dir anyway. If there is a patches directory it is obvious that upstream files are patched and there is no need to explicitely give a hint about this. If patches are "hidden" anywhere in the upstream code some developers fail to realise this and my suggestion might help noticing this fact. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de