Bug#452215: lintian: r1238 - in trunk: checks debian testset testset/diffs/debian testset/diffs/debian/patches
>>> 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.
>> I have to admit that I consider using a patch system in this way to be a
>> bug. I think we might want to upload with this check and see if there
>> are too many "false" positives.
FWIW I give a +1 for this warning. IMO one shouldn't ship the changes from
the patch in the .diff.gz too. Thats just wrong. Better would be to have
a common patch/unpatch target defined in policy.
And then the normal maintainer should follow the W (maybe upgrade to E
unless NMU detected) and the NMUer can ignore it, ie run "foo patch" and
then edit the stuff, so the NMU ends up in diff.gz
(And jftr - I lost interest in that thread way before HE did)
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bye, Joerg
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