Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Joachim Wiedorn wrote:
> If I had unapplied all patches of debian/patches and later I start with
> debuild, then dpkg-source works with the unpatched sources - it doesn't
> apply the patches as in format 1.0. Is there a chance that dpkg-source
> see the patches and can recognize that they must be applied before run
> further?
It does this already as I said, quoting the dpkg-source manual page:
| [...] dpkg-source will apply the patches by itself
| if it believes that they have not yet been applied. To detect this situation, it
| uses the following heuristic: it finds the list of supposedly unapplied patches
| (they are listed in the series file but not in .pc/applied-patches), and if the
| first patch in that set can be applied without errors, it will apply them all. The
| option --no-preparation can be used to disable this behaviour.
But dpkg-source is only called when you build the source package so
it works for "debuild/debuild -S" but not for "debuild -b/debuild -B".
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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