Re: changes to upstream sources/HOWTO patch

2005-12-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:56:24AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Can someone explain to me how to apply patches to upstream sources "the >> right way" or point me to an appropriate document? > > `apt-get install dpatch` > > You've got some examples in /usr/sh

Re: changes to upstream sources/HOWTO patch

2005-12-19 Thread Damyan Ivanov
gregor herrmann wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:56:24AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > >>I've noticed that some packages contain a debian/patches-dir and I'm curious >>how this works. > > debian/patches is used by dpatch, the necessary information should be > available in man dpatch. > >>C

Re: changes to upstream sources/HOWTO patch

2005-12-19 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:56:24AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I've noticed that some packages contain a debian/patches-dir and I'm curious > how this works. debian/patches is used by dpatch, the necessary information should be available in man dpatch. > Can someone explain to me how to app

Re: changes to upstream sources/HOWTO patch

2005-12-19 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:56:24AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Can someone explain to me how to apply patches to upstream sources "the > right way" or point me to an appropriate document? `apt-get install dpatch` You've got some examples in /usr/share/doc/dpatch/ then. You can also take a lo

changes to upstream sources/HOWTO patch

2005-12-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi Mentors, I've noticed that some packages contain a debian/patches-dir and I'm curious how this works. I think I need to patch one of my packages myself so I'm looking for some documentation. The Debian policy [1] does not really help since the part about "changes to upstream sources" is quite s