Re: generating patches for debian packages

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Kamaraju S. Kusumanchi:

> unpack the source again into another temp directory and then use "diff -r"
> and then delete the temp directory. But this is time consuming. Is there
> any easy way?

I usually load the Debian package into some version control system
prior to making changes.  For instance, for GIT, it's:

  git init
  git add .
  git commit -m "Import PACKAGE VERSION"

or something like that.  All "the working copy is a repository"
systems (Mercurial, darcs, even RCS) work fine for that purpose.