Bug#484549: lintian: Check that patches in debian/patches/ do not modify files in the debian directory
Hi,
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008, Joey Hess wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > This is always wrong as the files in the debian directory are provided by
> > Debian.
>
> Unless they're provided by upstream...
Even in that case, the changes should end up in the .diff.gz and not
really in a patch in debian/patches/.
> > 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?
Of course it can. It removes any pre-existing debian directory before
unpacking the .debian.tar.gz. Thus it avoids the need of repacking for
the upstream that provides a debian dir in their tarball.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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