Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> writes:
> Hubert Chan wrote:
>> You can use something like dpatch or quilt. Or just modify
>> Makefile.frag in the root source directory and let dpkg-buildpackage
>> include the patch into the diff.gz file.
> ...but using a patch management system is strongly recommended from the
> q&a point of view.
Assuming you meant QA here: No, it's not. If there would be only one
patch system, you would be right. But between no patch system, dpatch,
cdbs-simplepatchsys, quilt, dbs and home-brewn patch systems, half of
the QA work becomes figuring out how to apply the friggin patch for the
actual problem.
It's more comfortable for normal package maintainers, though: Moving
changes to new upstream versions is reduced to cp -r $old/debian/
$new/debian, apply errors can easily be seperated and it's easy to
forward stuff to upstream.
Marc
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