Re: patching an original tarball
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 01:08:52PM +0100, Jordi wrote:
> > 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?
Well, I meant temporary in terms of number of versions, rather than
number of days. You can make a note if you like. In most cases, the sources
probably won't be used again after release so it doesn't really matter.
Hamish
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