Hi Raphael,

Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> I'm also not sure that there's any nicer solution... this "feature" has
> been there to ease the transition between 1.0 and 3.0 (quilt) mainly.
> I was not expecting that people would continue to create new packages
> where patches would be pre-applied without the corresponding quilt
> metadata.
>
> What's your use case?

Package maintained in version control, with patches applied.  The quilt
metadata consists of generated files and is therefore traditionally the
kind of thing that version control systems do not track.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan



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