Andreas, Jean,
I don't know how to deal graciously with their upstream releases, as when
I untar them, they produce, as customary, a new directory. How do I get
my, say, 0.7.0 patches and apply them to my 0.7.1?
Create a copy of thirdparty-0.7.0/patches in thirdparty-0.7.1/, and apply the
patches with quilt push. Don't copy the .pc directory.
I didn't realise that it was so easy: I was looking at the documentation for
0.39; now I've upgraded to 0.42 and I see a mention in section 5.4 of the
documentatio. But, as Debian description for quilt says,
Quilt is good for managing additional patches applied to a package
received as a tarball or maintained in another version control system.
5.4 section only mentions this in-place (like an cvs update), but nothing
about those 'tarballs'. I'd say that it would be worthwhile to explain it.
It is not obvious for newcomers.
I would add that some of the patches may no more apply if they have been
merged upstream. "quilt push" will fail on most of these, and you can
use "quilt delete -rn" to delete them and skip to the next one.
Thanks. This could also go to 5.4 documentation.
Thanks to all,
Ferran
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