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Bug#563546: pu: package dpkg/1.14.28



Hallo Raphael,

am Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 09:09:29AM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > 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.

one of two ways, i.e. the only one when quilt is not installed?

The point is not just used within stable but also users outside.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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