Bug#358961: FTBFS: useless use of quilt breaks

Sat Mar 25 17:20:46 UTC 2006

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> severity 358961 normal
> thanks
>
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 03:28:02PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>> Package: libvorbis
>> Severity: serious
>> Tags: patch
>> Justification: no longer builds from source
>
>> something changed in quilt that changed the return value if no patch
>> series is found. This breaks your "quilt push -a || test $$? = 2"
>> command in debian/rules.
>
> This has already been corrected in quilt 0.44-3.

Great news. There are over 500 packages on Dep-Wait due to this.

>> Since libvorbis has no patches at all the simplest solution seems to
>> be to remove quilt completly. There is little point in build-depending
>> on quilt and have it do nothing. Policy says Build-Depends should be
>> minimal and this is not.
>
> So it probably makes sense to downgrade this bug instead of closing it.

True. Thanks.

MfG
        Goswin