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@@ -353,8 +353,15 @@ All patches listed in \fBdebian/patches/debian.series\fP or
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\fBdebian/patches/series\fP are then applied.
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If the former file is used and the latter one doesn't exist (or is a
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symlink), then the latter is replaced with a symlink to the former. This
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-is meant to simplify usage of quilt to manage the set of patches. The
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-patches can remove files.
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+is meant to simplify usage of quilt to manage the set of patches. Note
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+however that while \fBdpkg\-source\fP parses correctly series files with
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+explicit options used for patch application (stored on each line
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+after the patch filename and one or more spaces), it does ignore those
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+options and always expect patches that can be applied with the \fB-p1\fP
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+option of \fBpatch\fP. It will thus emit a warning when it encounters
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+such options, and the build is likely to fail.
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+.PP
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+Similarly to quilt's default behaviour, the patches can remove files too.
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.PP
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The file \fBdebian/patches/.dpkg-source-applied\fP is created if some
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patches have been applied during the extraction.
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