Re: Source format 3.0 (quilt)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Tanguy Ortolo wrote:

> For the 3.0 (quilt), the packed source is well defined, but I have a
> doubt for the working form. According to dpkg-source(1), is seems to be
> the .orig.tar.ext and a working directory with patches applied *and*
> present in the debian/patches directory. Is that correct?

Yes, that’s right.

> Then, if I
> want to store my work in a VCS, it should also be with the patches
> applied.

Yes, that does tend to work well.  The recent thread
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/148937
includes some hints about generating the patches.

> When I am sure of that, I shall modify the wiki page section that
> explain how to convert a source package to 3.0 (quilt), adding the
> instruction to apply the patches.

Good idea.  Thanks for noticing.

Ciao,
Jonathan