reassign 1038121 dpkg-dev thanks Raphael Hertzog dixit:
>So maybe it's dpkg-source that needs to be tweaked so that such patches >have a field "Forwarded: not-needed" and an explanation that the patch >is an auto-generated mess that can't be forwarded as is. I guess so. I was thinking along these lines, and if the patch tracker has no other way to distinguish these (it’s in local-options, so it probably does not) then yes, that’s most likely the right solution. >Can you name a sample package affected by this please? src:mksh bye, //mirabilos -- ed, man! man ed!