Package: quilt Version 0.42-1 Quilt currently appears to unconditionally insert -E as a patch argument (see /usr/share/quilt/patch). This causes it to remove files that end up with a size of 0 after patching.
The patch manpage suggests that -E isn't normally necessary, and it can cause trouble. For example, after updating all of the autofiles for emacs21, aclocal.m4 will have been reduced to a size of 0, but it still exists, and the emacs Makefile depends on it existing. If the resulting autofiles diff is represented as a quilt patch, then when it is applied, aclocal.m4 will be removed (rather than left with a size of 0), and the emacs build will fail. There may be some reason that quilt depends on this behavior, but if not, it would be nice if there were some option to control the use of -E when calling patch. It would be ideal (though perhaps not feasible), if the use of -E could be specified per-patch, as with -p, but a global control, or additional argument to quilt push, would be sufficient. Also, I listed this bug at normal severity because I wasn't sure that it wasn't a real bug, but it might also just rate wishlist. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
