Re: [Quilt-dev] Converting the latex documentation?

[Martin Quinson]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:27, Martin Quinson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > quilt is currently used by 70 debian package to handle the delta between
> > the debian version and the upstream one. With time, this number tends to
> > grow.
> >
> > Unfortunately, this good news induce some extra load on my shoulder. Since
> > we are listed in the build-dependency of a lot of packages, we shouldn't
> > list too much other packages ourselves in order to reduce the possibility
> > of circular build-dependencies which are naturally evil.
> 
> IMHO quilt has nothing to do in the build dependencies in the first place. 
> Why 
> doesn't a simple for loop that simply applies the patches in order with GNU 
> patch suffice? In case people want to preserve the quilt metadata for easier 
> hacking, I would propose to either use the existing patch wrapper in the loop 
> (bin/patch-wrapper), or to create a script that performs the equivalent of 
> ``quilt push -a''.  I have nothing against adding such a script to the quilt 
> cvs, so that we'll keep it in sync with metadata changes. This script could 
> be packages independently; problem solved.

Indeed.

The solution is to provide such a script. It only needs to be able to apply
all the patches and to remove them in the clean target. 

Thanks for the idea,
Mt.

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