Re: the quality of Debian's diff.gz
* George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> [080601 17:14]:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-patch.html
> see, the PATCHDIR usually called files/ (analog to debian/patches/) from where
> they will be automatically applied to the upstream code.
"Each patch you wish to apply should be saved into a file named patch-*
where * indicates the pathname of the file that is patched, such as
patch-Imakefile or patch-src-config.h." and later "To make fixes and
upgrades easier, you should avoid having more than one patch fix the
same file".
Following those rules verbatimly would be no better than just have a
single .diff.gz file.
Bernhard R. Link
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