#1129675 xscreensaver: please drop the "quilt" build-depency, this is a '3.0 (quilt)' package #1129675
- Package:
- src:xscreensaver
- Source:
- src:xscreensaver
- Submitter:
- Alexandre Detiste
- Date:
- 2026-04-12 19:55:01 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
- Tags:
Dear Maintainers, xscreensaver 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/xscreensaver-6.09+dfsg1$ grep -ir quilt debian/source/format:3.0 (quilt) debian/control: quilt, debian/changelog: * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format debian/changelog: + Added quilt and removed dpatch from build-depends.
Thanks for the notice. Although I am all for group maintenance, I was a bit surprised to find this already committed to salsa, without any PR or note in the bug tracker about this being fixed. It doesn't seem to be a very important or urgent issue. Tormod