Lintian tag: package-uses-vendor-specific-patch-series

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The specified series file for patches is vendor-specific.

Source packages may contain vendor (i.e. distribution) specific patches,
but such packages must not be uploaded to the Debian archive if they are
used in conjunction with vendor-specific series files.

Vendor specific series files were carefully implemented as a dpkg feature.
Unfortunately, they currently conflict with some workflow goals in Debian.
They are presently disallowed in Debian.

The preferred approach for distributions other than Debian is now to apply
such patches programmatically via debian/rules. You can also create
multiple, vendor-specific sources and upload them separately for each
distribution.

The decision to prohibit the use of that particular dpkg feature in Debian
was made by the project's technical committee in consideration of other
planned workflow modifications, and may be revisited.

You should only see this tag in Debian or other distributions when
targeting an upload for Debian.

Please refer to Bug#904302, Bug#922531, and
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/11/msg00004.html for
details.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/patches/quilt

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