Re: Best way to move from .diff.gz patches to dpatch

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Subject: Re: Best way to move from .diff.gz patches to dpatch
From: "Sandro Tosi" <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:23:33 +0200
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Hi Kartik,

> Now, for better maintenance and making life easy for new upstream
> release, I want to move to dpatch.
>
> What are best way to do it? I have done manually with xosview (15
> patches scattered in .diff.gz and reading changelog carefully, putting
> correct patch submitter from BTS -- all hail).

I wrote something about start using dpatch, and how to convert
upstream changes done by maintainers in a dpatch patch:
http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/index.php?view=use_dpatch

Any comments are welcome.

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka Morpheus, matrixhasu)
My (little) site: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/

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