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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