Re: How to patch files in a package's debian directory

[Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de>]

Am 14.01.2014 10:47, schrieb Jonathan Dowland:
> Is the package in question maintained in a version control repository
> (apt-cache showsrc pkgname | grep ^Vcs might help to determine this).
> If so, you could record the debian-specific changes in a commit and
> either mail the commit to a bug number or push a copy of your modified
> checkout somewhere (I use temporary github accounts for this, when the
> source is in a git repo to start with), thereby avoiding the limitation
> in dpkg-source.
> 
Actually, there is a git repository for the package. I wasn't aware of that.

That sounds like a good solution. Now I really have to read up on git and
packaging.