#1129467 quota: please drop the build-depedency on 'quilt', this is a '3.0 (quilt)' package

#1129467#5
Date:
2026-03-01 21:30:17 UTC
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Hi Michael,


Since the move to the "3.0 (quilt)" format,
the build-depedency on quilt is not needed anymore;
it is dpkg now that does this the job of applying
patches at build time.

Please drop this old dependency to help triage
the remaining users of "quilt" (a few are legit).


I would also drop debian/README.source,
this is the default situation of 99% of packages,
and thus does not need a special README anymore.

Greetings

Alexandre

/tmp/quota-4.09$ grep quilt -r
debian/source/format:3.0 (quilt)
debian/control:        quilt (>= 0.46-7), libnl-3-dev, libnl-genl-3-dev, libdbus-1-dev,
debian/changelog:  * Changed source code format to version 3.0 (quilt) and debhelper compat
debian/changelog:  * Patches are now handled by quilt.
debian/README.source:Please refer to /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source for information to the patch
/tmp/quota-4.09$