RE: Q: How-To Submit patches
On 31-Jan-2001 Martin Albert wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm looking for info/doc/scripts/hints on proper / practical ways to
> submit patches.
>
> Of interest to me is also the proper way to generate a patch to a
> single file - what is the best point in the dir structure to start?
> Toplevel, ../Toplevel, ... ?
>
what i do is:
apt-get source package
cd package
<hack hack hack>
cd ..
mv package package.shaleh
dpkg-source -x package.dsc
# the N makes it include files I might have added
diff -pruN package package.shaleh > shaleh.patch
<send shaleh.patch>
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