Proper solution for source format 3.0 and git-buildpackage?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:29:42PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
>On Wednesday 15 September 2010 07:40:56 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> I hereby propose that we recommend generally switching to source 
>> format 3.0 (quilt) - even for packages not currently using patches - 
>> and add the following info to debian/source/local-options:

[wrong content snipped to limit further misinformation]

>Just tried this (after reading dpkg-source manpage as well, above entries are
>wrong).

Yeah.  Sorry for the misinformation.  This is the proper content, right:

unapply-patches
abort-on-uptream-changes


>This unapplies the patches after a build, not during cleaning of a
>package where the package is cleaned first, then patches are unapplied. This
>will break packages which patch the build system to fix cleaning issues.

Patching the build system needs special care, that's right.

This is not only tied to this unapply-patches trick: I suspect source 
format 3.0 also is also less reliable in the order of applying patches - 
or more importantly in applying _slow_ enough to have later timestamps 
on later applied patches.  This may trigger e.g. libtool regeneration 
routines.

I still recommend that we generally switch to source format 3.0 - but 
sure let's add a big warning to be cautious if applying patches to build 
systems.


  - Jonas

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