Re: debuild/dpkg-buildpackage behaves not as expected
James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
That sounds that "some people" were favoured over "standard" here.
> My main point was that you should be trying to drive change through
> dpkg, not through devscripts.
I am not sure who is responsible here -- that's why I've put both
commands into the Subject.
Cheers
Ole
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