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Bug#538588: marked as done (libxfontcache: FTBFS with new source format 3.0 (quilt): incompatible patch management rules)

Your message dated Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:41:53 +0000
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and subject line Package libxfontcache has been removed from Debian
has caused the Debian Bug report #538588,
regarding libxfontcache: FTBFS with new source format 3.0 (quilt): incompatible patch management rules
to be marked as done.

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Package: libxfontcache
Version: 1.0.4-1
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 libxfontcache does break. To reproduce the
problem you can do this:
$ apt-get source libxfontcache
$ mkdir -p libxfontcache-1.0.4/debian/source
$ echo "3.0 (quilt)" >libxfontcache-1.0.4/debian/source/format
$ dpkg-source -b libxfontcache-1.0.4
$ dpkg-source -x libxfontcache_1.0.4-1.dsc
$ cd libxfontcache-1.0.4 && 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-1.0.4-1 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 libxfontcache, the custom patch application code is
incompatible with direct quilt usage. It fails trying to remove
the expected .pc symlink because it's a real directory created during
source extraction.

Consider switching to xsfbs which has been updated to be compatible
already (see discussion starting at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2008/05/msg01250.html).

Cheers,

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0

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Version: 1.0.4-1+rm

You filled the bug http://bugs.debian.org/538588 in Debian BTS
against the package libxfontcache. I'm closing it at *unstable*, but it will
remain open for older distributions.

For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/557981. That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed and suggestions of possible replacements.

Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian.

--
Marco Rodrigues

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