Re: patching an original tarball
My gut feeling is, after patching the upstream tarball with an upstream
patch, it is still prinstine -- but that is my gut feeling.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 01:30:38AM +0100, Jordi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Upstream maintainer of nano has provided me with a patch that backports an
> outstanding bug in the editor, meant to be applied for frozen.
> I have some doubts on how I should do this.
> If I patch the affected .c directly, the sources will not be pristine
> anymore, correct?
> Should I do the patching before compilation, using debian/rules?
> If so, any example of a correct way of doing so? (I imagine I should unpatch
> when cleaning & so). Patching it directly is Bad?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jordi
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