#1129657 gnucobol3: please drop the "quilt" build-depency, this is a '3.0 (quilt)' package

Package:
src:gnucobol3
Source:
src:gnucobol3
Submitter:
Alexandre Detiste
Date:
2026-03-04 13:45:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1129657#5
Date:
2026-03-04 13:44:01 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Thorsten,

I'm going on with my cleansing efforts.

gnucobol3 has an extraneous/stale build-dependecy on 'quilt'.

With modern '3.0 (quilt)' packages this build-dependency
is not needed anymore: the task of applying the patches
at build-time is handled by dpkg itself.

Greetings

Alexandre


/tmp/gnucobol3-3.2$ grep -ir quilt
debian/source/format:3.0 (quilt)
debian/control: , quilt
/tmp/gnucobol3-3.2$