[SCM] WebKit Debian packaging branch, debian/unstable, updated. debian/1.2.5-1-1-g0ecfd13

Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com
Tue Oct 19 15:12:29 UTC 2010


On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:01:41 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:49:37AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:32:38 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:01:51AM +0000, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
> > > > index df3a807..abe6a53 100644
> > > > --- a/debian/changelog
> > > > +++ b/debian/changelog
> > > > @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
> > > > +webkit (1.2.5-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=high
> > > > +
> > > > +  * Unapply 02-pool-fixup-and-sparc-support.patch and
> > > > +    04-spoof-user-agent-to-google.patch in git.  This prevents the
> > > > +    creation of an unwanted debian-changes patch.
> > > 
> > > This doesn't sound right. 3.0 (quilt) doesn't create debian-changes for
> > > applied patches, except if your tree contains an outdated .pc directory,
> > > or the series file is incomplete.
> > 
> > The 1.2.5-1 upload has an automatically generated debian-changes file
> > that reverts all of the cve-* patches. I grabbed that version, and
> > built it myself and got the same automatically generated file. This
> > change seems to fix that.
> 
> If the new version includes the cve patches, and the patches weren't
> removed from debian/patches, then it's not unexpected.
> That's why keeping 3.0 (quilt) packages in git requires an adjusted
> workflow...
> 
> IMHO, unapplying all patches is the wrong option. But then, I'm not
> really active anymore on webkit.

I think keeping patches unapplied in git makes better sense as a
workflow.  It's a bit messy to add the patch file and the diff in each
git commit.  This way, just the patch file is added in git.  Anyway,
this fix seems to work.

Mike



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