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Re: question about build a package



On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 13:40:56, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@coredump.us> writes:
> > On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 06:31:37, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> >> That's not necessarily true as a result of it being a 1.0 format
> >> package (there were ways to use quilt patches with the 1.0 format), but
> >> it is certainly true in this case.
> > 
> > Huh.  I don't think I knew quilt could be used in 1.0 format until now,
> > but it makes sense that there's some way to do this.  Thanks for letting
> > me know.
> 
> Yeah, quilt is a regular program, of course, so the package can just
> Build-Depend on quilt and run it during the build.  There were various
> strategies for automating that.

Understood.  Thanks very much for the explanation.

  -- Chris

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