[Pkg-octave-devel] Using quilt [was: Re: octave-epstk 2.2-9]
* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com> [2008-03-17 23:34]:
> What's its advantage?
The big advantage is for editing new patches, which is highly facilitated by
the concept of "stack of patches".
> And is there some simple introduction?
/usr/share/doc/quilt/quilt.html
> Do we need to edit the series file manually? I'd consider this a step
> backwards (I routinely forget to edit the 00 file for dpatch).
No, the series file is managed automatically by the quilt command. Of
course, the file must be created by hand when converting from another patch
system, although people try to automatize this too [1].
[1] http://blog.orebokech.com/2007/08/converting-debian-packages-from-dpatch.html
--
Rafael
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