"Bernhard R. Link" <brl...@debian.org> writes:
> * Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at> [120515 01:10]:
>> For these kind of things the expected behaviour is that quilt and
>> dpkg-source behave the same way, and if not, dpkg-source should
>> warn or whatever.
>
> I think the patched debian source format should not depend on what
> quilt does but be sensible within itself. Requiring patched being
> able to applied without any magic (which might hide mistakes and
> result in changes different from the intended ones) is a reasonable
> thing to do.
>
> Bernhard R. Link
The error message could be better though. dpkg-source could try if magic
(fuzz) helps and then complain about the patch being fuzzy etc...
MfG
Goswin
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