Ian Jackson writes ("Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging
repositories"):
> I think you need to be more explicit about the implications for `3.0
> (quilt)' format packages. Something like:
>
> If the git tree contains debian/format specifying `3.0 (quilt)',
> the git tree must also contain debian/patches/series and all the
> patch files contained within it. Furthermore, the tree should be
> in the `patches applied' state. (This means that every change to
> upstream files is represented twice: once in the contents of that
> very file in the git tree, and once as a hunk in one of the
> debian/patches. These two representations must be in step.)
It now seems like people are saying that patches-unapplied git trees
work with dpkg-buildpackage. In which case the text above needs to
explicitly deal with that possibility.
What a complicated variety of different kinds of mess we have all
made. (And I'm definitely including myself here. dgit's .pcs, I'm
looking at you.)
Ian.
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