Re: libtecla package

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:02:33AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:44:11PM -0600, Scott Christley wrote:
> > E: libtecla source: patch-modifying-debian-files add-destdir.patch debian/Makefile.in
> 
> You should probably put the following text into your ~/.quiltrc
> 
> QUILT_DIFF_ARGS="--no-timestamps --no-index"
> QUILT_REFRESH_ARGS="--no-timestamps --no-index"
> QUILT_PATCH_OPTS="--unified-reject-files"
> QUILT_PATCHES="debian/patches"
> 
> This is written in Debian Med policy[1].  Once you have this you
> can simply do:
> 
>   quilt push
>   quilt refresh
> 
> and the message is gone.

No, I think the issue is that the patch is patching debian/Makefile.in -
this looks odd.

If upstream does not have a Makefile, the patch should create it in the
upstream directory, i.e. below Debian.

If upstream ships a debian/Makefile.in, what is its use? 


Michael