* "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Manoj> One of the feature I like of a monolithic patch, as you call Manoj> it, is that when upstream incorporates changes previously made Manoj> by me or others, it is automatically handled on upgrade; the Manoj> monolithic patch just gets smaller.
OTOH, I find it easier to keep track of the changes I made to a source with multiple patches. You keep them in logical units, can review them and keep track of them easyly. For me, dbs made the mc package far easier to maintain. If upstream incorporates a change, I simply remove the of the diff from the patches dir. I also use cvs-buildpackage with other packages and it is very good in its field. Version control of the diffs would be a very cool thing. Hmm, maybe I could just manually CVS control the debian/ dir. Ciao, Martin