[Pkg-octave-devel] octave-epstk 2.2-9

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Mon Mar 17 22:34:10 UTC 2008


On 17/03/08 18:27 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> I wish to upload soon octave-epstk 2.2-9 as in SVN r1411.  This is
> essentially a QA release where I fixed some Lintian warnings and allowed DM
> uploads.
> 
> I took the opportunity and switched to quilt instead of CDBS'
> simple-patchsys. After using quilt, any other patch system seems a pain in
> the neck.  

What's its advantage? And is there some simple introduction?

> 1) debian/control: Build-depend on quilt
> 2) debian/rules: Include patchsys-quilt.mk
> 3) debian/patches/series: Create this file

Do we need to edit the series file manually? I'd consider this a step
backwards (I routinely forget to edit the 00 file for dpatch).

	Thomas



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