Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tuesday 24 November 2009 14:26:34 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> How stable are the quilt metadata and what do you mean by "easy"?

The metadata is versioned, and the current version is 2. Here is an example 
how to apply a series of patches:

        set -e
        mkdir .pc
        echo 2 > .pc/.version
        for patch in $(cat patches/series); do
                patch -b -B .pc/$patch/ -p1 < $patch
                echo patch >> .pc/applied-patches
    done

Of course supporting additional features like different strip levels, 
compressed patches, etc. makes things a little more complicated, but none of 
that is really hard, and also it's probably not needed in your case.

> Anyway, if we clean up the patch to propose the shell variant as an
> alternative to the C variant with a configure option to use it, would you
> accept it?

I don't see a strong reason why not.  It still is the wrong solution to the 
bootstrap problem though; I would be much happier to add a simple "quilt-
apply-series" script like the above example. (The patch-wrapper script might 
be even nicer for you guys though.)

Andreas