Re: Best way to move from .diff.gz patches to dpatch
On 11167 March 1977, Kartik Mistry wrote:
> I am maintaining packages of festival family (festival, -dev, -doc,
> speech-tools). I took maintainership sometime ago and fixed many bugs,
> but package has no patch system ie all patches resides in .diff.gz.
> 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).
> Are there any easy way to do this?
There is no easy way, but you can possibly make your life a little
easier using mc: Just go into the .diff.gz file (select it in mc, hit
return), and you see the whole diff in a filesystem view, where every
change in a file is displayed as file.diff.
That makes it at least easier to sort out the different files / hunks.
--
bye Joerg
<aj> vorlon: would it be less subtle if we replaced red, green and
yellow with black, white and a shade of grey?
<vorlon> aj: "and this is what a necrotic port looks like"?
<aj> vorlon: the arch qualification table, halloween edition?
<aj> vorlon: "i heard a faint pinging, and went to the firewall and what
greeted my eyes? AN m68k RISED FROM THE GRAVE!!!"
Reply to: