Yes but then lintian will bork "patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff"
because of .pc presence, and the .pc directory will be packed into the
source package. Or should I delete .pc directory before running debuild ?


On 3 January 2014 14:02, Stephen M. Webb <stephen.w...@bregmasoft.ca> wrote:

> On 01/03/2014 06:04 AM, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am currently porting linuxlogo to quilt 3.0 format and got some
> questions. From the wiki I can read that current .pc
> > drectory should be deleted (
> >
> https://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0#How_to_convert_a_source_package.3F)
> for porting. How should I add patches
> > then ? When I issue quilt the directory is still created. I think the
> wiki is not clear on that.
>
> If you add the .pc directory to your .gitignore (or the equivalent for
> your chosen VCS) everything will just work.
>
> Quilt only uses the .pc files to determine what has changed.  It will
> recreate it as necessary when you push patches, so
> "quit refresh" will do the right thing.  Because it's entirely derived
> from other sources (original sources and patch
> files) there is no need to keep the .pc directory under source control and
> certainly no need to distribute it.
>
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