Hello Nish, On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 02:26:29PM -0800, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > 2) How do we determine if a source package is 1.0 vs. 3.0? I am > currently using `dpkg-source --print-format`, but have found one source > package (util-linux 2.13~rc3-5), where dpkg-source emits:
I would just introspect for the debian/source/format file. If it has a line "3.0 (.*)" then it's 3.0, otherwise it's 1.0 (for all packages that were ACCEPTed to ftp-master). > ii) some patches may fail to apply with a trivial `quilt push`. This > occurs with, at least, a historical publish of samba. Have you considered obtaining the patches-applied tree using `dpkg-source -x`? That applies the patches without using quilt(1), so might workaround this sort of bug (if it didn't, the package would FTBFS). -- Sean Whitton
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