Re: New source package formats now available
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 09:30 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > In the end, I decided to trust nothing and to verify if the first
> > patch can be applied or not. If it can be applied, we assume that the
> > patches have not been applied and we apply them all (unless
> > --no-preparation is given). If quilt is available, instead of checking the
> > first patch, I check the first patch returned by quilt unapplied
> > and apply the remaining of the patches if needed.
>
> This heuristic is likely to fail - patches that solely add content can
> apply repeatedly without error.
I know, that's why it's called an heuristic (it doesn't get it right 100%
of the cases) and why --no-preparation exists and why it's best to not
allow for any fuzz in that test.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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