1 This package uses dpatch in order to apply patches to the upstream
3 Patches are stored in debian/patches and their filenames usually end in
5 For further details, see the man pages for dpatch and dpatch-edit-patch.
7 All commands described below should be run from the top directory of the
8 package source tree, unless otherwise stated.
10 * To generate the fully patched source, in a form ready for
11 editing, that would be built to create Debian packages, run:
15 Note: This should happen automatically when you run
16 dpkg-source -x on a dpatch source package.
18 * To modify the source and save those modifications so that
19 they will be applied when building the package, pick a
20 suitably informative patch file name, for example
21 01_add_README.source_file.dpatch, and then run:
23 dpatch-edit-patch 01_add_README.source_file.dpatch
25 This will place you in a new shell in a temporary copy of the
26 source tree. Make your desired modifications to it, and then
27 exit the shell to create the patch file containing them (this
28 file will appear in debian/patches).
30 * To remove source modifications that are currently being
31 applied when building the package, run: