Package: quilt
Version: 0.37-5
Severity: important
I'm filing as important, but it could well be serious as it's likely to
break build on existant packages. Up to you to find out / decide.
We found a problem in cdbs caused by packages attempting to patch
config.{guess,sub} files. cdbs updates these automaticaly, so when this
happens the patches end up failing to apply or unapply.
Please look at the changelog for latest cdbs upload (0.4.26-4). The problem
and the fixes needed are described there in more extension. Currently it is
in incoming:
http://incoming.debian.org/cdbs_0.4.26-4_kfreebsd-i386.changes
You most likely need changes in quilt that are equivalent to the ones in
dpatch.mk (I suggest you use dpatch.mk for reference rather than
simple-patchsys.mk, for the sake of simplicity).
Quoting from the dpatch.mk log:
> In dpatch.mk:
> - Always invoke reverse-config before anything else, and update-config
> after appliing/reverting patches.
This is mandatory for using patches with cdbs. By invoking these targets,
cdbs uses a backup of config.* files to keep these nasty patches that mangle
config.* happy, then swap the files to get the source in a buildable state.
> - Add weak dependency on patchutils and use lsdiff to issue a big
> warning if a patch is updating config.* files.
This is not really necessary, but I encourage you to do the same (cdbs weak
dependencies are quite simple, just look at dpatch.mk).
> - Assuming that dpatch itself is in charge of idempotency in the
> apply/reverse targets.
It doesn't matter which part of quilt implements this, but the apply and
reverse targets must be idempotent or otherwise the config.* files will
easily get out of sync.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i386)
Kernel: GNU/kFreeBSD 5.3-2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages quilt depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.2-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii diffstat 1.35-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii gawk 1:3.1.4-2 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii gettext 0.14.1-6 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii libc0.1 2.3-1+kbsd.8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii patch 2.5.9-2.0.1 Apply a diff file to an original
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