On Mon, 03 Jan 2011, Bastian Blank wrote: > It is a crafted file. It consists of two appended diffs.
Why not use two diffs instead? > diff.gz is never hand-generated, the contents of debian/patches are. If > they may not, you have to document it. True. > > > quilt and patch applies this patch without problems: > > > | Applying patch upstream-21334:993458f6c5a0+21405:ae381a864b4f > > > | patching file xen/arch/x86/mm/hap/p2m-ept.c > > > | patching file xen/arch/x86/mm/hap/p2m-ept.c > > And quilt refresh will get rid of that. > > And it gets rid of many other things, the comments for example. Which comments? quilt refresh keeps all the data before the first patch. > > I don't know whether I'm going to accept this request. I'm rather enclined > > to tag it wontfix. But I welcome supplementary feedback. > > Okay, another nail in the cofin of the quilt source format. It looks > like a mistake to even thought about using it. I haven't taken any decision yet, but you're the first to complain about this particular (mis-)feature so it can't be so annoying as you make it sound like. Or maybe I should turn it into a warning and not die. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
