Bug#615516: lintian: False positive with unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt.

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 05:35:14PM +0100, Niels Thykier a écrit :
> 
> As far as I can tell, this tag is only triggered on 3.0 (quilt)
> packages.  Can you confirm this?  If so, then the patches are applied
> when the package is unpacked and therefore CDBS's patchsys-quilt.mk is
> not doing a lot (unless you are using a non-standard location for quilt
> patches).

Hi Niels,

yes, the false positive is trigerred by using patchsys-quilt.mk and
3.0 (quilt) at the same time.

One of the advantages of doing it is that it is easy to change the source
package format. To 1.0 for some backports, or to 3.0 (git) for fun and
learning.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan