On Monday 08 February 2010 19:16:41 Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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 > > I do not use it that way. I use 3.0 to have several .orig.tgz files and no patches. This is because my package uses content from several upstreams. Take that in account when you modify the wiki page, please. The package (if you want to check the disposition) is wmaker-data Cheers Noel er Envite
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