Re: How (not) to convert from 3.0 (quilt) to 1.0
Ondřej Surý schrieb am Monday, den 12. April 2010:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 22:53, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> wrote:
> > Dear backporters,
> >
> > At minimum, if you don't want to use a patch system, you should
> > additionally delete the .pc/ and debian/patches/ directories.
>
> Removing all patches is also _not_ correct way to convert package for
> backports. You may reintroduce security flaw, bugs, etc., etc., etc.
> This is very bad advice and you should not remove patches and random
> when backporting a package, since you may end up with entirely
> different package than in testing.
Of course, if there are patches they should applied to the bpo package too.
So converting the package back to quilt is neccessary.
Alex
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