[med-svn] r19172 - trunk/community/website/docs

Andreas Tille tille at moszumanska.debian.org
Sat May 9 15:37:30 UTC 2015


Author: tille
Date: 2015-05-09 15:37:30 +0000 (Sat, 09 May 2015)
New Revision: 19172

Modified:
   trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Remove outdated quilt integration


Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2015-05-09 07:30:57 UTC (rev 19171)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2015-05-09 15:37:30 UTC (rev 19172)
@@ -1037,48 +1037,6 @@
 					<para>Please see <command>man 1 quilt</command> to have a
 					comprehensive list of commands.</para>
 				</sect4>
-				<sect4 id="quilt-integration">
-					<title>Integration in the build process</title>
-					<para>Add in the very first part of <filename>debian/rules</filename>
-					(i.e. before the targets), the line:</para>
-					<blockquote>
-						<programlisting>include <filename class="headerfile">/usr/share/quilt/quilt.make</filename></programlisting>
-					</blockquote>
-					<para>Please use this to import patch and unpatch rules instead of writing them, and remember to add the needed dependencies to its
-					targets:</para>
-					<blockquote>
-						<programlisting>...
-build: patch build-stamp
-build-stamp: configure
-...</programlisting>
-					</blockquote>
-					<para>This kind of dependency will ensure that if you also
-					patch the build system, you get a working patched build
-					process.</para>
-					<caution>
-						<para>Don't also put configure as a dependency of
-						build (leave it in build-stamp): that may cause problems
-						during parallel buildings (i.e. the -j flag of make).</para>
-					</caution>
-					<para>Now add a dependency to the clean target:</para>
-					<blockquote>
-						<programlisting>...
-clean: unpatch
-...</programlisting>
-					</blockquote>
-					<para>If you've also patched the build system, using upstream's
-					clean target might fail. This is what you should do:</para>
-					<blockquote>
-						<programlisting>...
-clean: clean-patched unpatch
-clean-patched:
-...</programlisting>
-					</blockquote>
-					<para>Obviously, you could always use an approach like this,
-					but it's an useless complication if you don't patch the build
-					system, and you should keep <filename>debian/rules</filename>
-					the simplest you can.</para>
-				</sect4>
 			</sect3>
 			<sect3 id="dpatch">
 				<title>Using <command>dpatch</command></title>




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