Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, 06 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote: > > More specifically, I'm not the one using Quilt *at all*. The patches > > are created from my VCS, stored in the ‘debian/patches/’ directory > > separate from the upstream source, so there isn't anything for them to > > be applied to until the package gets built with ‘dpkg-source’. > > Most VCS have options to control the output of "<vcs> diff". git > produces -p1 patches by default and you can use --no-prefix (-p0 > like) or --src-prefix / --dst-prefix for other cases. > > With bzr you can use “bzr diff --prefix a/:b/” to produce -p1 > patches instead of -p0 patches.
Yes, that could be done. It needs to be done by every user, for every patch that they ever create for consumption with ‘dpkg-source’. Which is why I was hoping for a way to fix it in one place, for ‘dpkg-source’ specifically. I wonder whether the fall-out from all those people producing valid Quilt patches that don't work with ‘dpkg-source’, and having to educate each new person indefinitely, is going to be better or worse than, one time, fixing ‘dpkg-source’ to accept ‘-p0’ patches :-) -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, | `\ Brain, but isn't that why they invented tube socks?” —_Pinky | _o__) and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
