Bug#1038121: tracker.debian.org: debian/patches check vs. single-debian-patch in debian/source/local-options
Hello,
On Thu, 15 Jun 2023, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Unsure if this is the right pseudopackage; if not, please reassign.
>
> The “new” Debian tracker shows:
>
> debian/patches: 1 patch to forward upstream
>
> The package however uses the single-debian-patch mechanism
> to let a diff be autogenerated from the patched source in
> VCS. This is therefore not a diff that could possibly be
> forwarded, and possibly contains Debian-local diffs only.
>
> (This is basically using 3.0 (quilt) like 1.0, and very valid.)
The tracker uses data exported by UDD so I believe that it's up
to UDD to not mark that patch as to be forwarded... but UDD is doing
its analysis based on the pseudo-headers available in the patch.
So maybe it's dpkg-source that needs to be tweaked so that such patches
have a field "Forwarded: not-needed" and an explanation that the patch
is an auto-generated mess that can't be forwarded as is.
Can you name a sample package affected by this please?
Cheers,
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