Import layout of Quilt v3 packages
Barry Warsaw
barry at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 8 14:45:38 UTC 2011
On Feb 08, 2011, at 02:23 PM, Max Bowsher wrote:
>I think we should go ahead and change the package importer _now_ to
>revert to importing 3.0 (quilt) source packages with patches *not*
>applied. When it does so, it should probably write a
>"debian/source/local-options" file containing "unapply-patches". This
>will give us import branches that are actually usable for UDD-style
>development *now*, which I think we currently do not have for 3.0
>(quilt) packages.
>
>Once the problems surrounding ubiquitous looms have been solved, we can
>think about switching the import format again, but at least we will then
>have usable UDD between now and when we reach that point.
It's not entirely unusable now. It's also not entirely awesome either.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment/Documentation/PatchSystem
Discovered with much experimentation.
-Barry
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