#1129725 stow: please drop the "quilt" build-depency, this is a '3.0 (quilt)' package

#1129725#5
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2026-03-05 06:30:10 UTC
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Dear Maintainers,

stow 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/stow-2.4.1$ grep quilt -r
debian/source/format:3.0 (quilt)
debian/control:Build-Depends-Indep: quilt, perl, libio-stringy-perl, libtest-output-perl
debian/changelog:  * Convert package to 3.0 (quilt) source format.
/tmp/stow-2.4.1$