Peter De Wachter <pdewa...@gmail.com> writes: > Op Mon, 25 May 2009 03:36:28 +0100 > schreef Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>: > >> Cool - that looks really useful. However, it looks like you're just >> running "dpkg-source -x" to unpack packages. This misses any Debian >> changes made using a patch system. Unfortunately there is no standard >> mechanism to apply patches in version 1 source patches, but it should >> be easy enough to support the standard patch queue formats. > > I know, it's not ideal. Unfortunately, running "debian/rules patch" is > going to be difficult, as the site runs on a FreeBSD system :) [1][2] > (It's a friend's system that has lots of spare cpu cycles and bandwidth > available.)
Hopefully packages with patch systems will be mostly replaced with 3.0 (quilt) format once DAK allows them. With 3.0 (quilt) formar dpkg-source -x already applies all patches and that is what we want. That just leaves packages with complicated patch systems and/or conditional patches. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org