[debhelper-devel] Bug#851130: Bug#851130: debhelper: dh runs dh_quilt_patch after dh_autoreconf in compat 10

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:45:27 +0100, Andreas Boll wrote:

> in compat level 10 dh runs dh_quilt_patch after dh_autoreconf for source
> format 1.0 packages. Thus it won't apply the patches early enough and
> causes issues like [1]. Switching back to compat 9 fixes this issue.
> 
> Please run dh_quilt_patch before dh_autoreconf in compat 10 too.

dh_quilt_patch is not part of debhelper but is shipped in the quilt
package so changes should probably happen there (and this bug should
probably be reassigned).

My guess is that the effect you are seeing is caused by the order of
commands in /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/quilt.pm.

Cheers,
gregor

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