Debian packages are, by far and large, a combination of external source archives, and various patches. These patches can be further sub-divided into debian-specific(both new features and fixes), and upstream changes(ones imported from upstream, or not yet sent upstream). As package development progresses, these changes: * get ported to newer upstreams * get reimplemented * get broken/fixed
I'm using yada build system and some home-made tools (cvsdebuild.alioth.debian.org) which can build the package from CVS source.
All changes are made in debian/ subdirectory. In package root directory is only orig.tar.gz. Sometime I have to prepare debian/patches/*.diff file. I can import upstream to separate /upstream/package/ directory to the "upstream" branch and do
$ cvs diff -r upstream > debian.diff
to get the patch with debian-specific changes.
After all, I run 'cvsdebuild'...
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