Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote: > > > How can I reliably inform the Debian packaging tools that my quilt > > patches are in ‘patch -p0’ format? > > You don't want to use -p0 otherwise you'll get bugs from buxy about > not supporting dpkg source package v3.
Hmm. Why does buzy have this behaviour? My first impression is that, if buxy can't handle a ‘-p0’ patch, that's a bug. > If you actually want -p0 for some weird reason As mentioned, the reason is that's what is most easily output from my VCS's ‘diff’ command which I'm using to generate the patch files. > make sure the series file has that option in it: > > $ locate debian/patches/series | xargs grep -- -p0 > ... > /home/pabs/devel/debian/games/gravitation/debian/patches/series:abs_path.patch > -p0 > /home/pabs/devel/debian/games/passage/debian/patches/series:abs_path.patch -p0 > /home/pabs/devel/debian/games/passage/debian/patches/series:amd64_fix.patch > -p0 > ... Thank you. I didn't see this mentioned clearly in the Quilt documentation. -- \ “Are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, Brain, but | `\ pants with horizontal stripes make me look chubby.” —_Pinky and | _o__) The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org