Re: How to handle patches during a routine update ?
Hi Charles,
happy to learn that you might come back. :-)
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:13:11PM +0200, Michael Crusoe wrote:
> Here is what I do in this circumstance.
>
> 1. `quilt pop -a` to remove all patches
> 2. `quilt push` one patch at a time. If I see that there was any fuzzing,
> then I do a `quilt refresh` before the next `quilt push`.
> 3. If a patch does apply cleanly I investigate to see if it should be
> removed entirely with `quilt delete patchname && git rm
> debian/patches/patchname` or fixed via `quilt push -f` and editing the
> files indicated in one terminal while reviewing the corresponding `*.rej`
> files in another terminal. `quilt refresh` when I'm done fixing the patch,
> then continue with step 2
> 4. When I'm done, I `dch "Refreshed patches" && debcommit -a` or similar
>
> Maybe others have a better method, I'm curious to hear from them as well.
You basically describe what I'm usually doing (I just learned about
quilt delete - which I'm doing manually :-) ).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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