Re: How to maintain emacs-snapshot-ized packages?

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>]

* Kai Grossjohann 

(Yes, I know, old mail)

| jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant) writes:
| 
| > I think the common recipe is:
| >
| > apt-get source <package>
| > cd <package>-<version>
| > edit debian/emacsen-install and add the flavour (usually to "case $FLAVOR in ...")
| > debuild
| 
| I know that the first two and the last step are normal, but I think
| the third step (edit) gets boring really quick.
| 
| Isn't there something that allows me to update the contents of the
| directory, while keeping the local edit?

A friend of mine (Cc-ed) wrote a daemon called patchd which builds
locally tweaked packages using sbuild and a bit of magic.  It seems
it's not in Debian, but he might be convinced to put it there, I
guess. :)

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