Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

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

On 6/19/06, Eddy Petrişor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Err, sorry, I didn't read the whole thing:
	Changes to upstream may then be stored as separate patches in
	the debian/patches directory, and are applied automatically
	(with the same rules as run-parts) to the upstream source when
	the package is unpacked.

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EddyP
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