On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 06:44:04PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > Besides it would be great that everyone uploading has a big reminder to > switch away from dpatch. Switching to v3 quilt should be easy. There are several features of dpatch that can't be trivially migrated to v3 quilt. - Custom patch commands, as already discussed. Yes, we should get rid of them, but that doesn't make it easy to convert them. - Conditional application of patches. Some packages have patches that are only applied on a per-architecture or per-target-distribution basis. - Patches that don't unapply cleanly after build can be dealt with via 'rm -rf' with a custom patch system, but must be made to unapply cleanly with v3 (quilt). It's still probably worthwhile to push towards v3 as a standard for source packages, but let's not ignore that there are some real challenges along the way. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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