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Re: The road to source format "3.0 (quilt)"



-=| gregor herrmann, Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 07:38:25PM +0100 |=-
> The new source format "3.0 (quilt)" seems to hit the road, and since
> we want to keep our role as an avant-garde^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W
> it would have some advantages for us (especially dealing with our
> "bundle packages" containing several upstream tarballs but also
> easier handling of patches - no need for de-/quiltification) it is
> maybe appropriate to start dicussing a roadmap following up on some
> random talks on IRC and some first experiments (thanks, Ansgar).
> 
> AFAIK what's missing is:
> - dh-make-perl support

This is trivial to add. The hardest part is naming the option to set 
the source format and deciding about the default :)

What is not so trivial is making --refresn convert between formats, 
adjusting rules/control accordingly.

> - full svn-buildpackage support (esp. for multiple tarballs)
> 
> What does everybody think -- should me start to move more in that
> direction? What else is missing? What needs to happen?

I have a problem with the new format in that that building the package 
leaves the patches applied, so every time I build (with debuild or 
whatever pbuilder helper which first creates a source package) I have 
to unapply the patches. Is there some clever trick to avoid this?

-- 
dam

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