Bug#485172: starfighter: FTBFS when converted to new source format 3.0 (quilt): patch files contained in tarballs

[Cyril Brulebois]

tag 485172 wontfix # that's a soft-wontfix, see below.
thanks

Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> (08/06/2008):
> Package: starfighter
> Version: 1.1-7
> Severity: wishlist
> Usertags: 3.0-quilt-by-default

Sorry, not this one.

> In the case of starfighter, the quilt series is only applicable after
> extraction of a tarball/zipfile/jarfile. But dpkg-source tries to
> apply the quilt series immediately after unpack and will thus fail.

Indeed, the series is applied manually after an unpack round.

> In several cases the usage of tarball(s) in tarball is justified by
> the fact that several upstream tarballs have to be combined. The new
> format does support unpacking of multiple upstream tarballs and as
> such, you probably want to defer fixing this bug until the new format
> is accepted and directly make usage of this new feature.

In that particular case, upstream ships its source code in a normal way,
but also embeds a .pak file, which then has to be tweaked, hence the
problematic patch.

> If your package only contains a single tarball, you might want to
> reconsider the choice of using a tarball inside a tarball and handle
> the build like do most other Debian packages.

Sadly, that's not possible here.

> In all cases, those are heavy changes for a simple wishlist bug and I
> can understand that you don't fix this until after lenny's release.
> I'm merely filing this bug to keep track of the packages that will
> cause troubles when we switch to the new format.

I'm tagging it wontfix for now (although I'm not the maintainer of this
package), because the only way I can think of right now would be to keep
the extra patch(es) out of the quilt series, and apply it/them manually
once the unpack round done. The clean target would need to be adjusted
as well.

That's why I think we should indeed postpone those modifications. I
guess that this tag will help you figure out which bug might need your
attention in the not-so-near future.

Mraw,
KiBi.
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