On Jul 15, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 18:12:41 Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> wrote: >> [...] >> >> > It seems to me 3.0 (Quilt) is still applying patches when the >> > package is extracted using dpkg-source. Is there a way to avoid >> > that too? That's been my major objection. >> >> dpkg-source -x --skip-patches foo.dsc >> (Does not work in debian/source/options, though) > >Not adding debian/source/format gets me the same thing with less typing >(although I appreciate knowing about the option, I'd missed that before). If >that worked in debian/source/options, then I don't think I'd have a strong >reason to avoid 3.0 (Quilt).
Should it though? Isn't to apply or not apply patches automatically a preference of the individual developer rather than of the "package"? Especially for team maintained packages, if you and I are on a team, you might not want it to apply patches but I might. I suppose in those cases though, teams (or even co-maintainers) can establish conventions, although it would be nice in that case to also have a --no-skip-patches option. Cheers, -Barry
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