Re: Bug#564011: quilt: .pc/.version detected by lintian as a direct change in diff
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> during the patching process, quilt creates a .pc/.version file, which
> did not exist in the original source package. when lintian checks the
> package, it asserts a patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff warning.
quilt creates many more files in its .pc directory and no we won't remove
.pc/.version, it's important for quilt to know what version generated the
metadata in .pc.
> is there anyway to get quilt to work without this file or to say that
> the file is ok in the lintian checks? thanks.
Does this file end up in your .diff.gz ? If yes, then you're simply not
cleaning properly in you clean rule and lintian doesn't need to be
modified at all but your package should be fixed (and you should use the
official quilt.make file to do the job for you, see
/usr/share/doc/quilt/README.Debian).
BTW you might want to use the new format "3.0 (quilt)" which auto-excludes
.pc by default.
Closing the bug because the bug report seem completely wrong and
misheaded. If the advice above did not solve your concern, then reopen and
reassign to lintian. (BTW, I think that you should question yourself a bit
more before opening such bugs, quilt is largely used in many packages and
such a basic problem would have been spotted ages ago if it was real)
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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