From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 21:05:21 +0000 (+2000)
Subject: Re: make debian-snapshot: why --single-debian-patch?
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Re: make debian-snapshot: why --single-debian-patch?
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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+Subject: Re: make debian-snapshot: why --single-debian-patch?
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+Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:
+
+> hey notmuch folks--
+>
+> if i try to do "make debian-snapshot", i see this warning:
+>
+> dpkg-source: info: using options from notmuch/debian/source/options: --single-debian-patch --tar-ignore --tar-ignore=performance-test/download/*.tar.xz
+> dpkg-source: warning: --single-debian-patch is not a valid option for Dpkg::Source::Package::V3::Native
+>
+>
+> and sure enough debian/source/options contains single-debian-patch.   Is
+> there a reason this is there, or should it be removed?
+>
+
+It's there because it's occasionally useful for the official debian
+packages (which are not native). I'd rather not clutter up the upstream
+history with adding and removing it.
+
+d