Bug#850156: Patch implementing CTTE decision

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst
> index 3c6c9d5..821010f 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-source.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst
> @@ -787,6 +787,13 @@ according to this convention, the C source code of an executable
>  ``checksum/util`` is to be located at
>  ``debian/missing-sources/checksum/util.c``.

> +Vendor-specific patch series
> +----------------------------
> +
> +Packages in the Debian archive using the 3.0 (quilt) source package
> +format should not contain a non-default series file.  That is, there
> +should not exist a file ``debian/patches/foo.series`` for any ``foo``.
> +
>  .. [#]
>     Rationale:

> diff --git a/policy/upgrading-checklist.rst b/policy/upgrading-checklist.rst
> index 70b31bd..97ae91a 100644
> --- a/policy/upgrading-checklist.rst
> +++ b/policy/upgrading-checklist.rst
> @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ Unreleased.
>      Required targets must not write outside of the unpacked source
>      package tree, except for TMPDIR (or /tmp if that is not set).

> +4.17
> +    Packages should not contain a non-default series file.  That is,
> +    dpkg's vendor-specific patch series feature should not be used for
> +    packages in the Debian archive.
> +
>  10.1
>      Binaries should be stripped using
>      ``strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note``

Seconded.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>