Bug#358961: FTBFS: useless use of quilt breaks

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sat Mar 25 15:11:18 UTC 2006


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.

> 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.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
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