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[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.4.2-24-g254966b



The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 94134a92667a6d0221529cb6023f5661099c4a65
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 25 17:23:45 2010 -0700

    Improve more-than-one-patch-system long description
    
    * checks/patch-systems.desc:
      + [RA] Improve the more-than-one-patch-system long description to
        explicitly mention the case of packages that depend on dpatch but
        are in 3.0 (quilt) format and to provide more rationale for the
        tag.  Thanks, Robert Luberda.  (Closes: #585657)

diff --git a/checks/patch-systems.desc b/checks/patch-systems.desc
index b3df68b..d77749b 100644
--- a/checks/patch-systems.desc
+++ b/checks/patch-systems.desc
@@ -126,10 +126,12 @@ Info: The package uses a patch system, but the Debian diff.gz contains
 Tag: more-than-one-patch-system
 Severity: minor
 Certainty: certain
-Info: The build-dependencies list more than one patch system and it's
- unlikely that you need both at the same time.
- .
- Currently lintian knows only dpatch and quilt.
+Info: Either the build-dependencies list more than one patch system or the
+ package uses the <tt>3.0 (quilt)</tt> source format but also has a
+ dependency on <tt>dpatch</tt>.  It's unlikely that you need both patch
+ systems at the same time, and having multiple patch systems in play
+ simultaneously can make understanding and modifying the source package
+ unnecessarily complex.
 
 Tag: direct-changes-in-diff-but-no-patch-system
 Severity: pedantic
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2b873a3..89a188d 100755
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ lintian (2.4.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * checks/files:
     + [RG] Detect embedded copies of HTMLPurifier.
     + [RG] Detect embedded copies of the Strophe javascript library.
+  * checks/patch-systems.desc:
+    + [RA] Improve the more-than-one-patch-system long description to
+      explicitly mention the case of packages that depend on dpatch but
+      are in 3.0 (quilt) format and to provide more rationale for the
+      tag.  Thanks, Robert Luberda.  (Closes: #585657)
   * checks/po-debconf:
     + [RA] Ignore comments in po/POTFILES.in.  (Closes: #586036)
 

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