#1129675 xscreensaver: please drop the "quilt" build-depency, this is a '3.0 (quilt)' package

#1129675#5
Date:
2026-03-04 17:13:13 UTC
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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.

#1129675#10
Date:
2026-04-12 16:37:02 UTC
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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