Re: Update about "3.0 (quilt)" source format
Hi,
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> Maybe I missed something from earlier discussion - but why not rename
> debian/source/patch-header to debian/patches/debian-changes? (I mean,
> dpkg-source would preserve the header when regenerating the file, like
> quilt does, right?)
No, it currently doesn't preserve the header of the automatic patch. Given
that dpkg-source can remove that file when there are no longer any
(further) upstream changes, I don't consider it as viable place to store
that information.
> And the existence of that patch file should already imply the
> --single-debian-patch flag.
I don't like when the behaviour is implicitely defined. I prefer
the situation where it's explicitely selected by the maintainer
and where it appears in the build log on the line "using options from
debian/source/options: %s".
Also the patch-header is used for all automatic patches (whether or not
--single-debian-patch is used) including for the (not-to-be-used in
Debian) 2.0 format.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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