Bug#543260: Please revisit or temper "patch-system-but-no-source-readme" tag

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Okay. So it seems that this has kinda been brought up in #495233, but as
>> you've already written to that bug is it safe to infer that you feel
>> this is a different issue?
>
> No, I just didn't remember that.  :)
>
> That bug is somewhat talking about two different things, but yeah, it came
> up there as well.  I think it might be worthwhile to have two separate
> bugs.  At the time, I felt like having everything have a file was a good
> idea, but over time I think I may have changed my mind.  I think it may be
> worthwhile to add to Policy special exceptions for quilt and dpatch used
> in the bog-standard way, since they're so widely used, and only require
> the file for everything else.
>
> But it definitely needs broader discussion.

In the case of quilt I see 2 possibilities for the future:

1) 3.0 (quilt) format

I think if that is used then no readme is needed.

2) manual patching with quilt in debian/rules

I think that will become uncommon use of quilt once 3.0 (quilt) format
is accepted by the DAK. And then it should have a readme again.


Just my 2c.
     Goswin