[debhelper-devel] Bug#889006: Bug#889006: dh-autoreconf is run before patching

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 07:01:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Indeed, from my PoV we would ideally fix this issue in dpatch.  However,
> we need to handle backports as well and that puts quilt back the table
> as well.  I am not quite sure that I want to backport quilt and dpatch
> to provide further debhelper backports.

Can't we instead:
 * ignore this bug
 * have packages move away from dpatch (I believe now lintian even warns
   about quilt packages using it?  at least for 3.0 which is not this
   case but still)
 * don't worry about backports: new dh-autoreconf/debhelper won't be
   pulled automatically, and if a package from sid doesn't build in bpo
   isn't really a problem (this is of course different if a package
   already in bpo already pulling a bpo debhelper/dh-autoreconf would
   fail)

There are only 82 packages with a build-dep on dpatch, and I doubt there
are many that uses the dh addon AND autoreconf AND have a patch that
modifies the configure script.

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