Re: How to cope with patches sanely

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net> writes:

> And people should check the VCS history just to get the current
> "patch"?

What is "the current patch"? If you mean the entire set of differences
against the upstream source, I already addressed that: simply generate
a diff between the branches containing upstream source versus
debian-packaged source.

As I pointed out, there are already tools that generate an entire
Debian source package, including 'foo.orig.tar.gz' and 'foo.diff.gz',
in a single step from a given VCS. Evidently what you ask for is
possible, and already indeed implemented such that it is easy.

If you mean something else by "the current patch", please explain
further.

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