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Re: question about iptables and bug #538608



On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:27:20AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 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,

At least in one case, I change the series file on-fly at building time
to create different flavors of the same lib with a different patchset. 
I roughly suspect this is not compatible with the 3.0 format, but it 
is also difficult to be auto-detected...

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine


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