On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Paul Chvostek wrote:
So...
I'm looking at porting a debian package whose source appears to be
distributed as an older version plus a couple of diffs to bring the
old source to the current stable version.
The two diffs, uncompressed, are about 101KB.
Should I add slightly-modified versions of these diffs as patches in the
port's files directory, making a 104KB port? That seems awfully heavy.
Or should I make distfiles of the original diffs, and write some
Makefile magic in post-patch to apply them to the older source distfile?
Is there a precedent for this?
editors/vim does the second with about 90 small patches. So yes, there's
precedent.
--Curtis
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