Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.25
Severity: wishlist

If you try to compare a source packages using Format: 3.0 (quilt)
and another source package you will have quite some noise:
- due to debian/patches/ being applied by default
- due to the .pc directory created by quilt

dpkg-source has new options when extracting such source packages
that could be helpful for debdiff: --skip-patches to not apply
patches at extraction time and --without-quilt to not use quilt
when applying them. (obviously --skip-patches ought to be enough since
quilt will not be used if patches are not applied)

Note that the content of Format: field might still evolve
until the release of lenny. So no hurry to fix this bug, but I thought I
would fill it early so that you're aware of the issue. :)

Cheers,

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
DEBRELEASE_UPLOADER=dput
DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog
DEBCHANGE_MULTIMAINT_MERGE=yes
DEBCHANGE_PRESERVE=yes
DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS="--color always -I"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.28.4     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.18    package building tools for Debian
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                          5.8.8-12   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                           4.1.5-6    The GNU sed stream editor

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                 3.1.10.1              Delayed job execution and batch pr
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii  build-essential    11.3                  informational list of build-essent
ii  bzr                1.3-1                 easy to use distributed version co
ii  curl               7.18.0-1              Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or 
ii  cvs                1:1.12.13-10          Concurrent Versions System
ii  cvs-buildpackage   5.21                  A set of Debian package scripts fo
ii  dctrl-tools        2.12                  Command-line tools to process Debi
ii  debian-keyring     2007.12.04            GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D
ii  debian-maintainers 1.26                  GPG keys of Debian maintainers
ii  dput               0.9.2.30              Debian package upload tool
ii  dupload            2.6.3.3               utility to upload Debian packages
ii  elinks [www-browse 0.11.3-6              advanced text-mode WWW browser
ii  epiphany-gecko [ww 2.20.3-1.1            Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck
ii  equivs             2.0.7-0.1             Circumvent Debian package dependen
ii  fakeroot           1.9.4                 Gives a fake root environment
ii  galeon [www-browse 2.0.4-1               GNOME web browser for advanced use
ii  git-core           1:1.5.5-1             fast, scalable, distributed revisi
ii  gnupg              1.4.6-2.1             GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  gnuplot            4.2.2-1               A command-line driven interactive 
ii  iceape-browser [ww 1.1.9-1               Iceape Navigator (Internet browser
ii  iceweasel [www-bro 2.0.0.13-1            lightweight web browser based on M
ii  libauthen-sasl-per 2.10-1.1              Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-pe 0.57-1                Support for https protocol in LWP
ii  libfile-desktopent 0.04-0.1              Perl module to handle freedesktop 
ii  libparse-debcontro 2.005-2               Easy OO parsing of Debian control-
ii  libsoap-lite-perl  0.71-2                Client and server side SOAP implem
ii  libterm-size-perl  0.2-4                 Perl extension for retrieving term
ii  libtimedate-perl   1.1600-9              Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl        1.35.dfsg.1-1         Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  libwww-perl        5.808-1               WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  links [www-browser 2.1pre33-1            Web browser running in text mode
ii  lintian            1.23.46               Debian package checker
ii  lsb-release        3.2-7                 Linux Standard Base version report
ii  lynx [www-browser] 2.8.6-2               Text-mode WWW Browser
ii  mailx              1:20071201-2          Transitional package for mailx ren
ii  man-db             2.5.1-3               on-line manual pager
ii  openssh-client [ss 1:4.7p1-8             secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii  patch              2.5.9-4               Apply a diff file to an original
ii  patchutils         0.2.31-4              Utilities to work with patches
ii  perl [libdigest-md 5.8.8-12              Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  strace             4.5.15-1.2            A system call tracer
ii  subversion         1.4.6dfsg1-2          Advanced version control system
ii  tla                1.3.5+dfsg-9.1        GNU Arch revision control system
ii  unzip              5.52-11               De-archiver for .zip files
ii  w3m [www-browser]  0.5.1-5.1+b1          WWW browsable pager with excellent
ii  wdiff              0.5-17                Compares two files word by word
ii  wget               1.11.1-1              retrieves files from the web

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