Package: gtm Version: 0.4.12+cvs20031024-4 Severity: wishlist Usertags: 3.0-quilt-by-default
To prepare a possible switch to the new source package format "3.0 (quilt)" [1], I converted all source packages and rebuilt the packages afterwards to see what breaks, and gtm does break. To reproduce the problem you can do this: $ apt-get source gtm $ mkdir -p gtm-0.4.12+cvs20031024/debian/source $ echo "3.0 (quilt)" >gtm-0.4.12+cvs20031024/debian/source/format $ dpkg-source -b gtm-0.4.12+cvs20031024 $ dpkg-source -x gtm_0.4.12+cvs20031024-4.dsc $ cd gtm-0.4.12+cvs20031024 && debuild -us -uc In this process, if the .diff.gz contains changes to upstream files, dpkg-source will have created a corresponding patch in debian/patches/debian-changes-0.4.12+cvs20031024-4 and will have registered that patch in a quilt series (debian/patches/series, it is created if needed). All the patches listed in the "series" file are applied directly during the extraction (dpkg-source -x). quilt itself is used if available (and will thus lead to the creation of the .pc directory), otherwise dpkg-source applies the patches by itself. For more information about the new source package format see the manual page dpkg-source(1). In the case of gtm, it doesn't properly handle config.sub and config.guess. The .diff.gz contains changes to those files when it shouldn't (and this later leads to a quilt patch that can't be applied/unapplied). If you auto-update those files, you should do it just before configure and you should remove them in the clean rules (or put back in place a copy of the original files that you replaced). See /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz for some details. Cheers, [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-packages-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
