Re: dpatch and .diff.gz files

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

Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:

> Le Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:01:16PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit :
> 
> >  Make those changes via ‘dpatch’, instead.
> 
> Note that if the changes you see are in files related to autoconf,
> the solution goes rather through a proper use of the clean target of
> debian/rules.

Right. More generally, ensure that the ‘foo.diff.gz’ contains *only*
the changes you want to make. If it contains unexpected changes, well,
you can thank the ‘lintian’ maintainers for catching yet another
packaging bug :-)

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