Proper solution for source format 3.0 and git-buildpackage?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi,






It seems the proper solution is at hand: I noticed at Debian Planet the

Just switching to dpkg source format 3.0 does not work nicely with git-buildpackage: the source format auto-applies patches and leave it as such after package cleanup, while git-buildpackage expects patches to be unapplied. As some may have noticed in past threads, I have not liked the approach of extending debian/rules to explicitly unapply patches based on e.g. the existance of the .git directory. I find that a bad hack. following entry: http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/14/how-to-customize-dpkg-sources-behaviour-in-your-debian-source-package/

the following info to debian/source/local-options:

unapply-patches = True
abort-on-uptream-changes = True





 - Jonas

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In that blog entry, Raphaël mentions the special file debian/source/local-options which is taken into account during build but not included into the generated source package. I hereby propose that we recommend generally switching to source format 3.0 (quilt) - even for packages not currently using patches - and add Warning: This is completely untested. Just written based on above blog entry. ;-)

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