Bug#452215: lintian: r1238 - in trunk: checks debian testset testset/diffs/debian testset/diffs/debian/patches
he@debian.org writes:
> * check/patch-systems:
> + [HE] Warn if the .diff.gz contains changes while the package uses
> a patch system. (Closes: #452215)
Some people have argued on debian-devel that the correct way to use a
patch system is to apply all the patches in the clean target rather than
in the build target so that the source package is shipped with all the
patches applied. The rationale is that this allows someone preparing an
NMU to just ignore the patch system (at the cost of desynchronizing the
changes from the patch system for the maintainer).
I don't know if we want to allow for that or not. I find the logic
dubious, but dpatch supports that mode of operation.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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