Dear Maintainer,

I see very little users of dh_quilt_patch left.

This is normal: this step is handled by dpkg on "3.0 (quilt)" packages
and dh_quilt_patch became a no-op.

I will try to finish remove this old helper.

Please have a look a the changes suggested hereunder.

Greetings

Alexandre


$ codesearch "dh_quilt_patch path:debian/rules" --only-package
gnome-snapshot
guymager
isospec
jedit
libwildmagic
psychtoolbox-3
quilt
ruby-redcloth
rust-gst-plugin-gtk4
toppic
xracer




"patch"

debian/rules:
-   dh_quilt_patch

debian/control:
- quilt,

debian/README.source:
-sudo apt install cargo-vendor-filterer dh-cargo-tools dpkg-dev git quilt
+sudo apt install cargo-vendor-filterer dh-cargo-tools dpkg-dev git

(or maybe remove even more of this generic advice)

dh_quilt_patch is used by the "vendor" rule used by Ubuntu for
gnome-snapshot and rust-gst-plugin-gtk4.

It's not generic advice. These are the steps someone needs to take to
update these packages in Ubuntu. Even an expert Debian packager might
not know how to do this without instructions.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

So maybe the vendor rules should ... vendor (pun) dh_quilt_patch ?
(it's one line)

Please be patient while a survey of the other packages happens
and I'll come back at this later.

In the meantime I've tagged this as wontfix.

Greetings

Alexandre

Le sam. 28 févr. 2026 à 18:04, Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org> a écrit :