Package: python-numpy Version: 1:1.0.4-8 Severity: minor Usertags: 3.0-quilt-by-default
To prepare a possible switch to the new source package format "3.0 (quilt)" [1], I converted all source packages and rebuilt the packages afterwards to see what breaks, and python-numpy does break. To reproduce the problem you can do this: $ apt-get source python-numpy $ sed -i -e '/^Source:/ aFormat: 3.0 (quilt)' python-numpy-1.0.4/debian/control $ dpkg-source -b python-numpy-1.0.4 $ dpkg-source -x python-numpy_1.0.4-8.dsc $ cd python-numpy-1.0.4 && debuild -us -uc In this process, if the .diff.gz contains changes to upstream files, dpkg-source will have created a corresponding patch in debian/patches/debian-changes-1:1.0.4-8 and will have registered that patch in a quilt series (debian/patches/series, it is created if needed). All the patches listed in the "series" file are applied directly during the extraction (dpkg-source -x). quilt itself is used if available (and will thus lead to the creation of the .pc directory), otherwise dpkg-source applies the patches by itself. For more information about the new source package format see the manual page dpkg-source(1). In the case of python-numpy, it uses simple-patchsys (from CDBS) but contains a debian/patches/series file that make it look like quilt is used. When the package is extracted, dpkg-source applies the patches listed in the series file and later when simple-patchsys tries to (re-)apply the patches, it fails. I suggest either switching to quilt (for CDBS you can use /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk, it will work once #473381 is fixed) or simply remove the debian/patches/series file. Cheers, [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00004.html -- Raphael Hertzog
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