James McCoy <james...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:05:21AM +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: >> What is the rationale behind the automatic reversal of the applied >> patches before a cleanup? > > Quoting from the bug I meant to refer you to (#649531) when closing the > debuild bug: > > On one hand, in dpkg's source format v3, the patched source is considered > to be standard "unpacked" form. > … > On the other hand, some people like to work most of the time with the > unpatched source, as in pre-v3 days.
That sounds that "some people" were favoured over "standard" here. > My main point was that you should be trying to drive change through > dpkg, not through devscripts. I am not sure who is responsible here -- that's why I've put both commands into the Subject. Cheers Ole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ytz8vgs8j43....@news.ole.ath.cx