Ecasound - getting quilt to pop -a after git-buildpackage

Joel Roth joelz at pobox.com
Fri Feb 4 17:33:24 UTC 2011


On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 01:34:35PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:37:25AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 01:21:57 (CET), Joel Roth wrote:
> >
> >>The ecasound package currently requires a manual 'pop -a' after
> >>a git-buildpackage before another git-buildpackage is possible.
> >>
> >>Successive builds are possible by adding dh_quilt_unpatch to the
> >>override_dh_auto_clean rule. But that still leaves the package
> >>sources with the patch applied.
> >>
> >>Is there a place to put dh_quilt_unpatch at the *end* of the
> >>build process?
> >>
> >>btw, the debian policy manual is unclear (to me) about whether
> >>the 'clean' target cares about the quilt patch queue status.
> >
> >FYI (and because not everyone was around at that time yet), this
> >is pretty much why I was against adpoting v3 source package for
> >pkg-multimedia. The git integration still seems less than ideal to
> >me.
> 
> Yes, you _were_ against it earlier on. What is more relevant here,
> and surprises me, is that you _still_ find it less than ideal.
> 
> >Joel, it seems that you have to live with manually popping the
> >patches from the stack, until the integration matures.
> 
> Since the time of some hesitating and others pushing for source v3,
> we have found - I believe - a sane way for source v3 and
> git-buildpackage to work reliably together:
> 
>   * Add this to debian/source/format:
> 
> 	3.0 (quilt)
> 
>   * Add this to .gitignore:
> 
> 	/.pc
> 
>   * Add this to debian/source/local-options:
> 
> 	unapply-patches
> 	abort-on-upstream-changes

Can this be added to the docs?  
 
> If anyone find this "less than ideal" then please elaborate on why.
> 
> 
>  - Jonas
> 
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