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Re: "Minor" changes to libconfig-inifiles-perl package (and including new upstream version)



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On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:19:40AM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
>-=| Jonas Smedegaard, Sun, May 31, 2009 at 01:02:21AM +0200 |=-
>> Here's how to apply that patch the CDBS way - in case you want to know:
>> 
>>   1) copy debian/patches/README from 
>>      libhtml-wikiconverter-markdown-perl
>> 
>>   2) add patch as e.g. 1001_fix_pod.patch
>> 
>>   3) generate series:
>> 
>>      cd debian/patches; ls -1 0* 1* 2* > series
>
>For points 2)-3) you may want to use quilt natively. A brief crash 
>course with quilt is available at 
>http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/howto/quilt.html
>
>(though alioth is down at the time I write this)
>
>One more step is to forward the patch upstream so that the problem 
>gets fixed for everyone, not jsut Debian users.

Ah, yes. There's off course nothing CDBS-like in writing patches by hand 
as I weirdly do.  And I forgot the most important part of the FLOSS 
ecosystem: "giving back".

Thanks for pointing it out! :-D


  - Jonas

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