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Re: git-dpm vs gbp-pq: new upstream and patch refresh (long)



On Thursday, September 04, 2014 15:40:42 Barry Warsaw wrote:
> That gets you a source package, but the binary package FTBFS because one
> additional test cannot be run during the build process (there's a DEP-8 test
> for full coverage).  Now though, you *must* commit or stash the d/changelog
> change.
> 
> Here's where things get a little frustrating.  What I need to do is patch a
> file to add a line that skips a test.  I'd like to append that to the 0003-
> patch but it's not the top of the quilt stack (there's an 0004- patch).  But
> this doesn't seem possible, and `git-dpm apply-patch` doesn't seem to do
> this. Besides, it's very inconvenient to name the full d/p/*.patch file you
> want to apply.  What I really want is the equivalent of `quilt push`.
> 
> The best it seems you can do is:
> 
> $ git-dpm checkout-patched
> <hack, git commit>
> $ git-dpm update-patches
> 
> The file is patched, but now I have an d/p/0005- file instead of a modified
> 0003- patch file.  Sigh.

I did already run into this with pkg-clamav.  See the patch in 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754052  for one way to do 
it.

Scott K

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