Bug#563546: pu: package dpkg/1.14.28
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Philipp Kern wrote:
> So the removal of --without-quilt is no problem because it only causes dpkg
> to emit a warning about an unknown option. That's good.
Yes.
> I wonder if we are really, really sure that nobody relies on
> .dpkg-source-applied. I would hope that nobody assumed that to be an
> interface for something (e.g. to read a patch list from)?
It was never documented to be a patch list, but just a way to know if
patches were applied at extraction time or not. I don't know of any tool
that relies on this file in unstable and in stable it's even less likely.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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