debian patches

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Thu Feb 3 07:01:05 PST 2005


Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:43:02PM +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> 
>>Btw, where are the debian patches?
>>On http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cdrtools.html , I only find a big patch 
>>on the left bottom of the page.
> 
> 
> That's the standard Debian package way of handling patches. However,
> cdrtools on Debian uses a patch-within-patch method to manage
> things. If you grab the .diff.gz and apply it, it will add a
> debian/directory to the tree, and (IIRC) in debian/patches it will
> dump all the patches that get applied at package build time.
> 

ok, extracted all patches... now, let's collect the patches somehow somewhere 
describe them and vote for them... suggestions for this process?

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