It seems that recent versions of GNU patch no longer save rejects in the case where a patch would create a file which already exists. I don't know if this is on purpose or if this is a regression, but as far as quilt goes we don't really care: let's just make the test case more tolerant. --- quilt-0.48.orig/test/create-delete.test +++ quilt-0.48/test/create-delete.test @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ file creates and deletions. > which already exists! Assume -R? [n] > Apply anyway? [n] > Skipping patch. - >~ 1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to (file )?create.rej + >~ 1 out of 1 hunk ignored( -- saving rejects to (file )?create.rej)? >~ The next patch would delete the file `?delete'?, > which does not exist! Assume -R? [n] > Apply anyway? [n]