Package: quilt Version: 0.42-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch After a casual reading of the manpage, I concluded that the value of QUILT_COMMAND_ARGS in ~/.quiltrc would be appended to every quilt command if it understands it, but of course "COMMAND" needs to be replaced by the name of a particular command. This is explained in the next sentence, which I didn't read, it seems.
I think this tiny patch would have helped me: --- quilt.1.orig 2006-03-02 17:34:21.000000000 +0100 +++ quilt.1 2006-03-02 17:35:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ Upon startup, quilt evaluates the file .quiltrc in the user's home directory, or the file specified with the --quiltrc option. This file -is a regular bash script. Default options can be passed to any command +is a regular bash script. Default options can be passed to any COMMAND by defining a QUILT_COMMAND_ARGS variable. For example, QUILT_DIFF_ARGS="--color=auto" causes the output of quilt diff to be syntax colored when writing to a terminal. Thank you, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages quilt depends on: ii bzip2 1.0.2-7 high-quality block-sorting file co ii diffstat 1.39-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii gawk 1:3.1.4-2 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr ii gettext 0.14.4-2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii patch 2.5.9-2 Apply a diff file to an original -- no debconf information -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
