Bug#915925: libxfce4util: Uses vendor-specific patch series file (ubuntu.series)

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

[Adding mattia@debian.org to CC]

Hi Yves-Alexis Perez,

> > Please migrate away from such series files and consider alternatives
> > such differing source packages or modify the build process to behave
> > conditionally or to conditionally patch files explicitly.
[…] 
> is there a documented way to actually do that in a simple/maintainable way

I'm not aware of a documented way that matches this description, alas.

I've had some brief discussions with in Mattia (CC'd) that might be
useful though; he had migrated away from an foo.series in another
package and I had mooted writing a possible "include"-able .mk snippet.

Hope that helps in the meantime.


Regards,

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