merge-package discussion doesn't discuss coping with quilt

[Steve Beattie]

The section on merging from Debian http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/udd-merging.html does not mention how to cope with quilt packages; doing 'quilt pop -a' is apparently recommended before merging a package using quilt to manage its patches.

(Except that it doesn't work, doing quilt pop -a first then causes merge-package to fail because there are local uncommitted changes; needing to spuriously add commits for unapplying and applying the quilt series seems bogus to me.)

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I have been meaning to add some info about bzr mu and quilt. Yes, it's true that you need to quilt pop then bzr commit before using bzr mu.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

I'll update this based on my recent experience merging packages from Debian for Precise. I just went through the (rather painful, but successful) procedure with the bzr/udd guys.