[debhelper-devel] Bug#889006: Bug#889006: dh-autoreconf is run before patching

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 07:01:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
>...
> Indeed, from my PoV we would ideally fix this issue in dpatch.  However,
> we need to handle backports as well and that puts quilt back the table
> as well.  I am not quite sure that I want to backport quilt and dpatch
> to provide further debhelper backports.

Why not?

dpatch is a mostly obsolete Debian native package,
most recent upload 2015.

quilt still has some upstream development, but nothing big.

It might still be easier to revert the change in dh-autoreconf,
but dpatch and quilt are not packages where I would see any
potential problems with making and supporting a backport.

> Thanks,
> ~Niels

cu
Adrian

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