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Bug#484549: lintian: Check that patches in debian/patches/ do not modify files in the debian directory



Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> This is always wrong as the files in the debian directory are provided by
> Debian. 

Unless they're provided by upstream...

> Furthermore those packages do not work with the "3.0 (quilt)" source
> format as it needs to generate a diff between the current source directory
> and the upstream source + a copy of the debian directory + the patches
> from the quilt series. 

So the quilt format cannot be used if upstream choses to include a
debian directory?

-- 
see shy jo

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