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# `package-uses-vendor-specific-patch-series`

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.

Severity: | `error`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Bug#904302

- Bug#922531

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/11/msg00004.html

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag