Re: [Quilt-dev] Quilt 0.60 is coming

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Then passing QUILT_PC=.fake_pc is kind of a hack, it works in practice 
> [1] but doesn't look too good to my eyes at least. I am wondering if it 
> would make sense to add a --dumb mode to quilt where it wouldn't look 
> for .pc or series up to the filesystem root, but would just assume we 
> are at the root of the project and trust the QUILT_* environment 
> variables. This would be useful for generating the documentation, and 
> there may be other use cases as well, for example nesting quilt trees. 
> Opinions?

Looks reasonable but its usage would be very limited IMO.

I think I saw once a bug report where a user was annoyed by this path
traversing because it found out a quilt tree somewhere else while he was
trying to create one in the current directory.

Note that in the case of the doc generation, we don't have to traverse
anything. The Makefile is already in the directory where the .pc is.
So it's important to not read .pc/.quilt_patches in that mode if you
want to use it it to fix the problem affecting us during a Debian package
build.

Cheers,
-- 
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