Bug#643043: dpkg: new feature breaks stuff, leaves meaningless option, leaves no way to override

2011-09-26 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** The following change: * Changed dpkg-source --after-build to automatically unapply patches that it has applied during --before-build. causes a problem where the clean rules of the upstream

Bug#643043: dpkg: new feature breaks stuff, leaves meaningless option, leaves no way to override

2011-09-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Nicholas, Nicholas Bamber wrote: The following change: * Changed dpkg-source --after-build to automatically unapply patches that it has applied during --before-build. causes a problem where the clean rules of the upstream makefile have been patched to ensure that the clean works.

Bug#643043: dpkg: new feature breaks stuff, leaves meaningless option, leaves no way to override

2011-09-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Note that --after-build only unapplies patches when patches were applied during --before-build (as indicated by debian/patches/.dpkg-source-applied). For the confused: I should have said as indicated by .pc/.dpkg-source-unapply. Sorry for the noise. -- To

Bug#643043: dpkg: new feature breaks stuff, leaves meaningless option, leaves no way to override

2011-09-26 Thread Nicholas Bamber
I maintain a package using git. So in the normal state in which I check stuff in the the patches are unapplied. The upstream makefiles happen to remake a number of files (to generate random numbers for security). Obviously I don't want to stop that, but I do want to restore those files before I

Bug#643043: dpkg: new feature breaks stuff, leaves meaningless option, leaves no way to override

2011-09-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Nicholas Bamber wrote: I maintain a package using git. So in the normal state in which I check stuff in the the patches are unapplied. The upstream makefiles happen to remake a number of files (to generate random numbers for security). Obviously I don't want to stop that, but I do want to