Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > Hi, > > On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Mike Hommey wrote: >> The modifications are implied, but it means that the source format is >> already this "heavy modification", on a similarly heavy modification >> scale. Additionally, if someone wants to sepearte the patches into >> feature-patches instead of one-modification-patch-per-upload they will >> have to additionally pull in quilt anyway to work on it properly, > > Well, they can drop the patch in debian/patches, and add it to > the end of debian/patches/series. If quilt is installed, it should > work as dpkg-source will use quilt applied to know > whether patches needs to be applied. If quilt is not installed, it assumes > all patches are applied, so you should also apply the patch.
Are you sure about that? dpkg creates a debian/patches/dpkg-applied-patches file listing the patches it has applied. It should notice when the series file has more patches than were applied and remedy the situation. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org