Bug#515069: dpkg Format: 3.0 (quilt) support
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 09:16:15AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I know that dak doesn't support the whizzo new dpkg features yet, but it
> > would be nice if I could use lintian with them for my private packages.
> > Currently debuild gives me "empty-debian-diff", with Format: 3.0 (quilt)
> > in my debian/control file, and I suspect that means it is skipping other
> > tests.
>
> What would really help with support for this would be if you could provide
> a sample package in the form of the Lintian test suite (t/tests) that uses
> Format: 3.0 (quilt). I haven't had time to look in detail at how such
> packages function, so it would take me longer to create a basic test case
> so that we can start analyzing Lintian's behavior for those packages.
Hi, here's one:
dget http://ymir.twb.ath.cx/tmp/midori_0.1.2+94-1.dsc
Basically you can make a quilt package (with no patches) by just
adding "Format: 3.0 (quilt)" to the source stanza of an existing
package. That's what I've done above.
The dpkg-source(1) manpage describes the various 3.0 variants.
Basically the difference is that there's a tarball containing debian/
rather than a diff that creates it.
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