Re: [Quilt-dev] -SPECPARTS directory and ed(1)

[Andreas Grünbacher]

Am Do., 29. Feb. 2024 um 22:08 Uhr schrieb Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>:
> 1. is it possible somehow to revert quilt to the previous state,
>    where it doesn't create *-SPECPARTS directory? What does this
>    directory bring to me?

You mean "quilt setup" does that?

> 2. 
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/rdiff/openSUSE:Factory/quilt?linkrev=base&rev=72
>    says that it added dependency on ed(1), because it is needed
>    by annotate function. However, as much I am looking at
>    https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/quilt.git/tree/quilt/annotate.in
>    I don't see ed used anywhere. Even with grep I cannot find anything:
>
>     $ grep -i -r -w --exclude-dir=.git ed .
>    grep: ./doc/quilt.pdf: binary file matches
>    ./quilt/annotate.in:# Then, for each patch that modifies the source file, 
> an ed-style diff

The patch utility will use ed to apply ed-style patches, and that's
where the dependency comes from.

Andreas