Re: question about iptables and bug #538608
Hi,
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> the "renamed debian/patches to debian/patch to avoid
> 3.0-quilt-by-default bug reports"
> changelog in latest iptables makes me uncomfortable...
> is it something we should all do eventually ?
Definitely no.
Some maintainers with complex build system might want to handle patches
separately and not let dpkg-source handle it, in that case it can make
sense.
But in most cases, one should simply adapt the build system to be
compatible with the new source format 3.0 (quilt). It usually doesn't
involve many changes.
In the case of iptables, I really don't think it was warranted to work
around in that way but since it's up to the maintainer...
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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