Patched Sources

[Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>]

Hello all,

I'm working on a package (rdesktop-1.0.0) which is virtually unusable 
without a large (1/2 meg) unified patch maintained by someone other than 
the author (a friend of mine who is flat out with other committments 
right now). Anyway I want to package it as:

rdesktop-1.0.0+19.6.6 (ie unified patch 19.6.6)

in the mean time. When he gets around to merging the patches and 
releasing 1.1.0 (hopefully soon) it should be a seamless upgrade (dpkg 
--compare-versions 1.0.0+19.6.6 \< 1.1.0 returns 0). The question is 
though, what is the 'correct' way of doing this? How do I override the 
name of the package so as to indicate that the patch has been applied? 
Surely it's not simply a case of doing:

mv rdesktop-1.0.0 rdesktop-1.0.0+19.6.6 ?

Please reply directly to me as I am not on the list.

Thanks,

Sam