Comment 6 for bug 614768

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 614768] Re: Unable to build dpkg v3 (quilt) packages

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:45:53 -0000, Paul Hummer <email address hidden> wrote:
> I think Anne is correct, but I think we could be smarter about it in
> bzr-builder. It could read the format, and if it's a v3 quilt format,
> then proceed to kill debian/source/format and then invoke quilt
> directly. James, does this sound reasonable?

That will work for most packages. There may be other differences between
the two formats that would cause a failure.

Thanks,

James