Re: New source package formats now available
Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net> writes:
> Just a general observation, it is rather painful to have to set and
> maintian QUILT_PATCHES by hand everytime I want to modify a patch. There
> have been a number of times now I have accidentally created the patch in
> the wrong directory, which can be very confusing (mess two projects up
> in one go!).
> Maybe this is now fixed in unstable, last I checked it wasn't.
If the only thing you use quilt for is Debian packaging and you perform
quilt operations from the top of the tree, then this setting in ~/.quiltrc
works fine:
QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches
There's a more complex recipe in the quilt documentation that handles more
cases.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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