Preserve the sources extracted by dpkg-source so as to save time
It takes a long time to build even the source package for a PPA of a huge project, and while the build isn't finished my computer is under heavy load so I can barely navigate a browser. The frustration is doubled when I get an error during that process.
Most of the times, errors are caused by a "malformed" patch. To avoid those, I incorporated the habit of copying the patches directory over to the unpacked .orig tarball and executing quilt push -a -v to make sure all patches apply successfully.
However, the Debian tool chest can be a bit arcane at times. That very same patch set occasionally fails when building the package with debuild -S -d -sd. For example,
dpkg-source -b .
dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (quilt)'
dpkg-source: info: building chromium-browser using existing ./huge-stuff_116.0.521.orig.tar.xz
### AFTER A LONG TIME... ###
dpkg-source: info: using patch list from debian/patches/series
dpkg-source: error: line after --- isn't as expected in diff 'huge-stuff.orig.lbv71S/debian/patches/priority.patch' (line 5)
This long time, I reckon, is caused by dpkg-source extracting the .orig tarball every single time I issue a build, even if it had just done so for the previous failed build.
Is there a way to preserve the extracted sources so that dpkg-source doesn't have to extract it again in the next iteration?
I couldn't find anything in the manual when looking for tarball.
Only keep reading if you are curious; The following is irrelevant to the question.
The actual error in the question was stupid, caused by the patch header being
--- a/foo/bar.h
--- b/foo/bar.h
instead of
--- a/foo/bar.h
+++ b/foo/bar.h
Nonetheless, quilt push -a -v did happily apply it somehow (exit status 0) when I tried it on the unpacked sources:
Applying patch patches/priority.patch
patching file foo/bar.h
Now at patch patches/priority.patch
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From man dpkg-source,
-ss Specifies that the original source is available both as a directory
and as a tarfile. dpkg-source will use the directory to create the
diff, but the tarfile to create the .dsc. This option must be used
with care - if the directory and tarfile do not match a bad source
archive will be generated.
It should also be noted that
If no second argument is supplied then dpkg-source will look for the
original source tarfile package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz or the
original source directory directory.orig depending on the -sX arguments.
Unfortunately, that build option is only available for source format 1.0, which is obsolete and quite limited (it doesn't even support debian/patches).
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