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Re: My personal recommendation on how to create Debian packages from upstream Git



Hello,

On Wed 28 May 2025 at 10:04pm +02, Marc Haber wrote:

> My personal pet peeve is the difference between the source package and the
> packaging git repository contents. Those two especially differ in the state of
> patches: They're applied in the unpacked source package, and not applied in
> the packed source package and in the git repository contents. That is for me a
> constant source of confusion and it would be nice if your document would
> contain an explanation.

To be clear, there are several patches-applied workflows (where both
d/patches and the changed files are committed to git) in use in the
archive by high profile packages.  For example, Emacs.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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