On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 10:51:22PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > > I would definitely like to see some standardisation -- like changing > > from quilt/dpatch to dpkg-source-v2 based patches, or having a standard > > README of some sort to explain how the package is built, but I don't see > > why it should be mandated. > Both quilt and dpatch have functionality that I don't believe > dpkg-source-v2 patches have. [...] > > I don't think that dpkg-source-v2 is really the answer to those problems, > although at least for quilt (where there are no questions of non-patch > actions) I'd be happy to see a system that converts a quilt patch setup to > dpkg-source-v2 [...] Right, that's what I was meaning -- that way dpkg-source will unpack the current source for you automatically, and you can NMU from there without having to actually worry that quilt/dpatch is being used and that you might need to run "debian/rules stitch" or something to get .c files you can edit. Cheers, aj
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