quiltrc for Debian packaging

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:50:02 +0000

Working on another laptop, I was missing my quiltrc settings. I think, I got them from a this email by Marco d’Itri. Perhaps it is of help to somebody (for example, when I go searching for it again).

BTW, I changed it locally to check only for debian folder in parent directories and create debian/patches automatically if needed:

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for d in . .. ../.. ../../.. ../../../.. ../../../../..; do
if [ -d $d/debian ]; then
if ! [ -d $d/debian/patches ]; then
mkdir $d/debian/patches
fi
export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches
fi
done

I’d rather end up with a patches dir inside the debian folder instead of having it at a random place in the package sources when adding the first quilt patch.

I wonder if we should ship this with the quilt package!?

Update: After discussion with James Vega on IRC, the quiltrc evolved into this version:

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d=.
while [ ! -d "$d/debian" -a `readlink -e $d` != / ]; do
d="$d/.."
done

if [ -d "$d/debian" ]; then
export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches
if ! [ -d $d/debian/patches ]; then
mkdir $d/debian/patches
fi
fi

This works with any directory depth while the original would only support 5 levels from the package base directory.

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quiltrc for Debian packaging