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Re: patching an original tarball



On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 11:09:38PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 04:48:57PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> > My gut feeling is, after patching the upstream tarball with an upstream
> > patch, it is still prinstine -- but that is my gut feeling.
> 
> No, that wouldn't be pristine -- it's not as it was downloaded from the
> upstream author, which is the whole point (IMHO).
> 
> Admittedly the upstream patch doesn't belong in the Debian .diff.gz
> file either, but it should be only a temporary situation until the next
> upstream version.

If nano-0.7.4-2 (the patched version) is admitted into frozen, I hope it
would be the last upstream version for Potato, so it would be a long
temporary situation. What do I do then? Just patch and recompile? Place a
note somewhere?

Thanks,

Jordi

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