[Debian-med-packaging] [dr at jones.dk: Proper solution for source format 3.0 and git-buildpackage?]

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

for those who are using git and git-buildpackage I wanted to foreward an
information which sounds important and is otherwise hard to find if you
are blog-ignorant as I am.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:40:56 +0200
From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
To: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Subject: Proper solution for source format 3.0 and git-buildpackage?

Hi,

Just switching to dpkg source format 3.0 does not work nicely with  
git-buildpackage: the source format auto-applies patches and leave it as  
such after package cleanup, while git-buildpackage expects patches to be  
unapplied.

As some may have noticed in past threads, I have not liked the approach of 
extending debian/rules to explicitly unapply patches based on e.g. the 
existance of the .git directory.  I find that a bad hack.

It seems the proper solution is at hand: I noticed at Debian Planet the
following entry:  
http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/14/how-to-customize-dpkg-sources-behaviour-in-your-debian-source-package/

In that blog entry, Raphaël mentions the special file  
debian/source/local-options which is taken into account during build but  
not included into the generated source package.

I hereby propose that we recommend generally switching to source format  
3.0 (quilt) - even for packages not currently using patches - and add
the following info to debian/source/local-options:

unapply-patches = True
abort-on-uptream-changes = True


Warning: This is completely untested.  Just written based on above blog  
entry. ;-)


 - Jonas

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