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Subject: dh-make-perl: please trim add_quilt() a bit: quilt is the default
 nowadays
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Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:57:40 +0200
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Package: dh-make-perl
Version: 0.129
Severity: normal

Hi,

With the help from &quot;debian-codesearch-cli&quot;, I've been cleaning a lot of old
extraneous/confusing/useless debian/README.sources instructions.

'3.0 (quilt)' is the one source format that should already be used
for all Perl packages, baring the few native ones, like &quot;dh-make-perl&quot; itself;
and it should also come to be the official default.

   https://trends.debian.net/#source-formats

Please trim the boilerplate logic from add_quilt{},
to avoid generating more confusing/useless boilerplate in the futur.

Greetings,

Alexandre


----
  sub add_quilt {
      my( $self, $control ) = @_;

      $self-&gt;read_rules;

      $self-&gt;rules-&gt;add_quilt;

      # README.source
      my $quilt_mini_doc = &lt;&lt;EOF;
  This package uses quilt for managing all modifications to the upstream
  source. Changes are stored in the source package as diffs in
  debian/patches and applied during the build.

  See /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source for a detailed explaination.
  EOF
----
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