Re: Bug#564011: quilt: .pc/.version detected by lintian as a direct change in diff
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:07:18 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote:
> Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I've been working with some existing packages recently and they use the
> > old quilt format, which turns out to be the culprit. A link to your doc
> > on converting to 3.0 [0] would have been a sufficient response.
>
> I'm fairly sure this problem doesn't exist even with the old way of using
> quilt unless the package is broken. Lintian has several tests that use
> quilt and isn't showing this problem for other packages that use quilt via
> debian/rules.
>
> Converting it to 3.0 is one way to fix it, but it shouldn't be necessary;
> just using quilt properly should do it.
It looks like naively updating to standards 3.8.3, without also
updating to the new source format exposes this problem. To reproduce,
download for example the alien-arena (7.0-1) source package (in
contrib), build at standards 3.7.3: no warning. Change to standards
3.8.3: .pc/.version warning will be asserted.
Mike
Reply to: