Bug#543417: README.source patch system documentation requirements considered harmful
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> (25/08/2009):
> > That's my point. Without README.source (assuming the rules are
> > changed to not force the creation of that file for common patch
> > systems), seeing debian/patches/ is not enough to know if the
> > patches are already applied or not.
>
> Fortunately, dpkg-source is there for that:
> | $ LC_ALL=C dpkg-source -x ../python-networkx_0.99-2.dsc
> | dpkg-source: warning: extracting unsigned source package (../python-networkx_0.99-2.dsc)
> | dpkg-source: info: extracting python-networkx in python-networkx-0.99
> | dpkg-source: info: unpacking python-networkx_0.99.orig.tar.gz
> | dpkg-source: info: unpacking python-networkx_0.99-2.debian.tar.gz
> | dpkg-source: info: applying all patches with quilt push -a -q
> | Applying patch 10_doc_relocation
> | Now at patch 10_doc_relocation
Indeed, so we can know safely ignore Bill's concern AFAIK (provided that
I have correctly understood what he meant).
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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