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Re: New source package formats now available



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.

-Rob

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