On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 21:57 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2008, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Apologies if I'm missing something (which is entirely possible :), but > > my experimentation suggests that using --skip-patches simply swaps one > > set of noise for another. > > If you take a package that contains upstream changes in its .diff.gz, you > effectively get that. But any package using quilt/dpatch/simple-patch-sys > will not have upstream changes applied at unpack time and will thus have > less noise with this change. > > Also consider the case when you compare two 3.0 (quilt) packages together > (say an NMU integrating an upstream patch), as you have a new patch in > debian/patches/ and the new patch applied, you get to see the same change > twice in the debdiff, not really optimal.
Having revisited the -dpkg thread on quilt packages (which I vaguely remember reading at the time), I realised that one of the problems was that I was building the packages with dpkg-buildpackage rather than dpkg-source -b so the diffs were skewed to start with. After some further experimentation with converting a quilt-using package to the new format and then modifying it, the change makes much more sense :-) I'll commit a patch shortly; testing welcome. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
