Bug#538672: xfonts-cyrillic: FTBFS with new source format 3.0 (quilt): patch file in debian
Package: xfonts-cyrillic
Version: 1:1.0.0-6
Severity: wishlist
Usertags: 3.0-quilt-by-default
To prepare a possible switch to the new source package format "3.0
(quilt)" [1], I converted all source packages and rebuilt the packages
afterwards to see what breaks, and xfonts-cyrillic does break. To reproduce the
problem you can do this:
$ apt-get source xfonts-cyrillic
$ mkdir -p xfonts-cyrillic-1.0.0/debian/source
$ echo "3.0 (quilt)" >xfonts-cyrillic-1.0.0/debian/source/format
$ dpkg-source -b xfonts-cyrillic-1.0.0
$ dpkg-source -x xfonts-cyrillic_1.0.0-6.dsc
$ cd xfonts-cyrillic-1.0.0 && debuild -us -uc
In this process, if the .diff.gz contains changes to upstream files,
dpkg-source will have created a corresponding patch in
debian/patches/debian-changes-1:1.0.0-6 and will have registered that
patch in a quilt series (debian/patches/series, it is created if needed).
All the patches listed in the "series" file are applied directly during
the extraction (dpkg-source -x). quilt itself is used if available (and
will thus lead to the creation of the .pc directory), otherwise
dpkg-source applies the patches by itself. For more information about the
new source package format see the manual page dpkg-source(1).
In the case of xfonts-cyrillic, one of the quilt patches modifies files inside
the debian directory. Don't do that... just provide the good version
of the debian directory.
Cheers,
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0
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