Bug#680155: dpkg-source: detection of applied patches fails if first patch is reverted

2012-07-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 03 Jul 2012, David Bremner wrote: If the first patch in a 3.0 (quilt) series is reverted by later patches in the series, then the heuristic used by dpkg-source to detect if patches are applied fails. This might sound contrived, but it can arise if e.g. patches are generated from

Bug#680155: dpkg-source: detection of applied patches fails if first patch is reverted

2012-07-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
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

Bug#680155: dpkg-source: detection of applied patches fails if first patch is reverted

2012-07-04 Thread David Bremner
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 08:11:48 +0200, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: Just to confirm that we speak of the same thing... you have all patches applied but you don't have the corresponding quilt metadata in .pc. When you build the source package, dpkg-source tries to apply all the