Re: How to mantain a package... easily
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:41:47AM +0000, Mark Howard wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 08:53, Jaime Robles wrote:
> > How can i mantain a package without doing every time the same job...
> > ?Is there any way to avoid checking all the files in /debian and
> > editing the Makefiles and so on eeeeeeeeevery time the sources are
> > updated?
>
> As well as using uupdate, I would also suggest that changes to upstream
> files should be done using patches rather than changing the files
> directly. This makes it far easier to keep track of what changes you
> have made, particularly if many unrelated changes are needed.
Given the clumsiness of existing tools to handle multiple patch sets,
this is usually only worth it for very large packages, IME.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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