Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

["Eddy Petrişor" <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>]

On 6/19/06, Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > I'm sure I'm not doing it correctly.  How do you correctly apply .patch
> > files without cdbs?
> At this point you should probably learn to use dpkg v2 source
> archives, which allow patches without "third party" patch applying
> code (and build deps).
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00010.html
>
> dpatch uses a "patch patch" format, where the first column is all
> pluses; they're really ugly.

Using the new format (which is only a presentation form) is orthogonal
to cdbs/dpatch/quit/simple patch sys usage. Although, I agree, having
a patch system emebedded in dpkg to become the official patch system
would have been a good thing, that is not what the thing is about.

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Regards,
EddyP
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