[Python-apps-team] patches not being applied when building mercurial

[Faheem Mitha]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Vincent Danjean wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> On 21/04/2011 14:08, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>> I'm using

>> debuild binary

> can you give us the version of tools you are using (in particular 
> bedbuild and dpkg-version ?) I did not check the mercurial sources but, 
> for other packages, I see them removing their dependencies and rules 
> with quilt. They instead rely on newer dpkg-sources to apply patches at 
> unpack time.

> I'm not sure this is the case here, but this can be something to
> check.

>  Regards,
>    Vincent

The standard squeeze ones.

                                                     Regards, Faheem

orwell:/home/faheem# apt-cache policy devscripts dpkg quilt dpkg-dev
dpkg:
   Installed: 1.15.8.10
   Candidate: 1.15.8.10
   Version table:
      1.16.0.2 0
          50 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ unstable/main i386 
Packages
  *** 1.15.8.10 0
         500 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
dpkg-dev:
   Installed: 1.15.8.10
   Candidate: 1.15.8.10
   Version table:
      1.16.0.2 0
          50 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ unstable/main i386 
Packages
  *** 1.15.8.10 0
         500 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
devscripts:
   Installed: 2.10.69+squeeze1
   Candidate: 2.10.69+squeeze1
   Version table:
      2.10.72 0
          50 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ unstable/main i386 
Packages
  *** 2.10.69+squeeze1 0
         500 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
quilt:
   Installed: 0.48-7
   Candidate: 0.48-7
   Version table:
  *** 0.48-7 0
         500 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
          50 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ unstable/main i386 
Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status