[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Some notes about the Salsa (Debian source) GNUstep Team repo

[Yavor Doganov]

Patrick Cardona wrote:
> On 2026-01-14 17:02:48 +0100 Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:
> > If you do a "git/gbp clone <URL>" from Salsa, the Debian patches are
> > not applied automatically as is done when you fetch the source package
> > with "apt source <package>".
> > 
> > Apply them from the toplevel source directory with:
> > 
> > $ quilt push -a
> > 
> > You can examine them in debian/patches (they're plain text files) and
> > "quilt series" will list them in the order they'll be applied
>
> sudo apt -y install quilt
> git clone https://salsa.debian.org/gnustep-team/preview.app
> cd preview.app/
> quilt push -a
> Fichier de série non trouvé (I guess: Serial file not found)
> 
> I guess I misunderstood the 'top level source': where could I get
> 'debian/patcphes'?

It's my fault; I forgot to tell you that you need to tell quilt where
to find the patches and the series file.  My ~/.quiltrc:

QUILT_DIFF_ARGS="--no-timestamps --no-index"
QUILT_REFRESH_ARGS="--no-timestamps --no-index"
QUILT_PATCHES="debian/patches"

The last variable is the important one.