>>>>> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
Hamish> Ugh. I guess it would work though.
Hamish> The other alternative is non-pristine source.
Another way (perhaps an overkill) is to do something similar to the
openldap source package.
debian/rules automatically extracts the prestine source and applies
patches to it. As far as dpkg-source is concerned, there is no diff
file, hence no problems with binaries.
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>