Re: [Monotone-debian] Debian Package Format

[Ludovic Brenta]

Francis Russell <address@hidden> writes:
> Firstly, I thought I'd mention that I filed an Ubuntu sync request so
> monotone-viz 1.0.2-2 is now in Maverick. Currently, monotone 0.47-2 is
> also in there. I didn't bother to file a sync request for that as I
> really don't feel like forcing the current changelog editor on more people.
>
> Ludovic, do you mind pushing the last monotone commit and tag?

Done, a few days ago.

> Anyway, I was wondering what people's thought's were on the Debian "3.0
> (quilt)" package format that a number of packages seem to have already
> upgraded to (http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0).
>
> What slightly concerns me is that the default state for the source is
> the patched state and the quilt logic is supposed to be removed. If we
> take a pristine monotone source, copy in the debian folder and run
> 'dpkg-buildpackage -S', the resulting source package *will* have patches
> applied. Run 'dpkg-buildpackage -b', and the patches won't be applied
> during the build. Instead, the binary target assumes that the source is
> already in the patched state. Hence, I'm worried that someone might
> accidentally produce a Debian upload that has a correct source package,
> but an incorrect locally built binary package. All the other binary
> packages automatically built from the source package by Debian would be
> fine.

Sorry for the delay in replying.

I too prefer to stick with the 1.0 format; 3.0 (quilt) interferes with
my normal workflow of checking out a branch that contains the "debian"
subdirectory.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.