Re: RFS: scrot (updated package)

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org> writes:

> All other upstream files should be modified with patches.

Or by some other method that results in the Debian source package
format, with a pristine upstream tarball and all maintainer changes in
the .diff.gz.

> So, Please put those cahnges in a series of patches in
> debian/patches and build depend on quilt.

Or use some other method (e.g. a VCS and the corresponding command
foovcs-buildpackage) to track differences from upstream and generate
the changes for the Debian package.

The "quilt" format is favoured by many, but is certainly not mandatory
nor even "best practice".

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Ben Finney