Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.5.5 Severity: normal Hi,
consider I am trying to package some software "test" using the new "3.0 (quilt)" package format. Beside the original 'test_1.orig.tar.gz' tarball I want to add another tarball 'test_1.orig-foo.tar.gz' that among others holds a patch against the original source. Since I want to apply this patch I add it to debian/patches/series as "../../foo/01-foo.patch", because I know the content of 'test_1.orig-foo.tar.gz' will be extracted into 'test-1/foo' which is two directory levels up relative to 'debian/patches'. I do this and everything compiles fine. No comes the strange part: When I extract the resulting source package 'test_1-1.dsc' via "dpkg-source -x test_1-1.dsc" it creates two(!) directories, namely 'test-1' and 'foo'. The 'foo' directory contains another directory with the name of the patch '01-foo.patch' and this directory finally includes the files that the patch modifies. I don't think this is a severy issue, but I believe this is not intended, though. I hope I could get my idea across. If you want to try out yourself, I have made a test package available at <http://debian.greffrath.com/unstable/test_1-1.dsc>. Thanks for your work, Fabian PS: This isn't just a theoretical issue, it has a real use case. For the long-abandoned 'XV' picture viewer there is a package available called "XV Jumbo Patches" that contains both a set of additional files and a patch in a tarball. The files are supposed to be copied into the source directory before building so I do this in debian/rules (and remove them out in the clean rule); then the patch must be applied. Since I don't want to carry an additional copy of the (rather huge) patch in 'debian/patches' I directly point to it from 'debian/patches/series' and thus found this issue. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (550, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii base-files 5.0.0 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii binutils 2.20-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg 1.15.5.5 Debian package management system ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii make 3.81-7 An utility for Directing compilati ii patch 2.6-2 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl [perl5] 5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.10.1-8 Core Perl modules ii xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20091116-1 XZ-format compression utilities Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.4.2-2 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.3 [c-compiler] 4.3.4-6 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.4 [c-compiler] 4.4.2-6 The GNU C compiler ii gnupg 1.4.10-2 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii gpgv 1.4.10-2 GNU privacy guard - signature veri Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: ii debian-keyring [debian-mainta 2009.11.04 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
