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Re: Some questions about patching source



This one time, at band camp, Junichi Uekawa said:
> > The plan I have come up with is to put all the files it needs into a
> > debian/patches directory, and alter the Makefile accordingly.  This
> > works just fine, although it makes the resulting .diff about twice the
> > size of the original source code, and it means it need to be redone
> > every time there is a new xscreensaver revision.  Does anyone have any
> > experience with this sort of thing, and have suggestions for automating
> > this process, or dealing with it differently?
> 
> I usually like to have such piece to be included in the main thing.
> In this case, probably the lowest load will be to include that
> screensaver in the main screensaver package..
> 
> 
> regards,
> 	junichi
That's not a bad idea - I'll write to him and see if he wants to merge
in what I've done, or co-maintain, or something.

Thanks,
Steve
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