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Re: How to handle Debian patches



On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:43:54PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008, Charles Plessy wrote:
>
>> since it makes complete sense I propose the followign addition to our
>> policy:
>
> I also perfectly agree and I might have missed something in the quilt docs
> but this aspect seems to be better solved in dpatch.  While I consider
> quilt as much easier to use I really liked the way dpatch handled comments
> inside the patch file.  Is there anything comparable in quilt?

I may be missing the intent of your question, since I don't know how
dpatch "solves" comments in patches.  But you can put any text you
like in front of the actual difference chunks and the "patch" program
will simply ignore it.  Thus you can perfectly well comment your
patches as suggested by Raphael & Charles, when using quilt.  I do
this, sometimes.

-Steve

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