Am Freitag, den 17.06.2005, 09:14 +0900 schrieb Junichi Uekawa: > Hi, > > > dpatch tries to revert the changes made > > by /home/user/package_source-a.b/debian/patches/01_patch_1.dpatch and > > this fails, because this is the updated patch, which was never applied > > to /home/user/package_source-a.b - the old version of 01_patch_1.dpatch > > is still applied to your working directory. And this causes trouble and > > probably (depending on the size of the patch) a broken work > > directory /home/user/package_source-a.b. > > Sounds like a genuine bug to me. > > Two options here: > > 1. force the edited patch to be 'unpatched' before dpep invocation > -> a less pleasant experience to those who are used to the current behavior, > but it's broken anyway? > 2. store the original patch in debian/patched/ and use that for unpatching > -> this will be an incompatible change which may break more.
The second one sounds good (maybe put the applied patch with suffix 'applied_' to debian/patched). So running dpatch-edit-patch will not change the real work directory and the changes made by the applied patch can be cleanly reverted. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
