Re: how use dpatch for binary files ?

[Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:51:18PM -0300, Jose Carlos do Nascimento wrote:
> Im making one package using dpatch.
> I changed some binary files (images)  and created one patch in 
> debian/patches
> 
> When I rum dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
> I receive message below.
> 
> 10_testpatch.dpatch  is a patch for one image.
> 
> Im thinking use uuencode and uudecode to solve this problem,  but I 
> would like to know if have other option to solve it.

You could make use of the new format supported by dpkg-source.  See:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00010.html

I'm not sure if it's OK to upload packages using the new format yet
though.

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