On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:05:21AM +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: > What is the rationale behind the automatic reversal of the applied > patches before a cleanup? Quoting from the bug I meant to refer you to (#649531) when closing the debuild bug: On one hand, in dpkg's source format v3, the patched source is considered to be standard "unpacked" form. … On the other hand, some people like to work most of the time with the unpatched source, as in pre-v3 days. … "dpkg-source --after-build" distinguishes between the two cases by checking for the ".pc/.dpkg-source-unapply" file, which is added when "dpkg-source --before-build" notices that patches were not already applied. You can ensure patches remain applied by applying the patches yourself before starting the build. QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt push -a debuild; # or dpkg-buildpackage, or whatever So, you have a method that you can work with. My main point was that you should be trying to drive change through dpkg, not through devscripts. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
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