Hi,

Alle giovedì 18 ottobre 2012, alex bodnaru ha scritto:
> wishing to improve upstream a little, i found myself forced to
> apply patches i didn't create.

I am not sure I follow you, which patches are you "forced" to apply?
Also, none of them is required is you want to compile and on work on the 
upstream version.

> that was because debian/rules clean leaves configure and Makefile.in
> files. maybe make distclean should be invoked?

They are part of the release tarball, so no. See also [1]

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules

> thanks a lot for your work, and i'd be delighted to post the patches
> on debian, before you'ld package the latest upstream.

Just note 0.20.x is a stable release serie, so only bug fixes go there. 
For new features, or generally for any patch, better send it upstream 
directly.

-- 
Pino Toscano

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