[...] > Actually dpkg-source does not even know about git-style patches, it's > just that the patch program has started recognizing them since version > 2.7. There's already 749070, and I had pending sending a mail to d-d, > precisely looking for possible build breakages. Anyway I'll try to whip > up that mail today. >
Ah, thanks a lot for the detailed info - and the fact that this is a patch thing entirely clarifies why I couldn't notice any related changelog entry in dpkg :-) > > So mainly out of curiosity I was wondering when support for this had been > > added? > > Obviously I would be really nice to see that backported, but I guess there > > is no > > urgency here. > > Depends on what you mean by backported, if you mean porting back that > functionality to stable, I don't really see it happening as it requires > a new upstream patch version. If you mean to backports.d.o, then I guess > you'll need to talk with the patch maintainer and the backports admins. > I'm not sure that would be a good idea though, as I might, perhaps, end > up disabling git-style patches depending on the discussion on d-d. > I'll happily join that discussion then - JFTR: as far as I can tell right now, I can only see 2 packages definitively making use of git-style patches (in that they introduce symlinks), but I might find a few more as I complete the review of my build failures. Best, Michael PS.: Still not subscribed, so please keep me CC'ed.
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