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Re: Bug#781206: soundmodem: metadata references non-existing URLs



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Iain!

On 03/26/2015 02:17 AM, Iain R. Learmonth wrote:
> diff debian/control.old debian/control.new 8c8 < Homepage:
> http://www.baycom.org/~tom/ham/soundmodem/ ---
>> Homepage: http://soundmodem.vk4msl.yi.org/

Just a short heads up: Please make sure to always use the unified
diff format when sending patches. Thus, use "diff -u file.old file"
to generate your patch or, even better, use git format-patch
whenever possible.

I found this little write-up [1] pretty useful. Even though it's
actually a howto for kernel patches, it's also a great a tutorial
on generating patches with git in general.

When making changes to Debian packages in particular, you can also
use a tool called "debdiff" which generates a diff between two
Debian packages. It takes the .dsc files of the two packages as
an argument. However, changes are often not visible until you
actually rebuild the packages with your changes.

Adrian

> [1] http://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch

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