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| Quick Guide To Patching This Package For The Impatient |
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| 1. Make sure you have quilt installed |
| 2. Unpack the package as usual with "dpkg-source -x" |
| 3. Run the "patch" target in debian/rules |
| 4. Create a new patch with "quilt new" (see quilt(1)) |
| 5. Edit all the files you want to include in the patch with "quilt edit" |
| (see quilt(1)). |
| 6. Write the patch with "quilt refresh" (see quilt(1)) |
| 7. Run the "clean" target in debian/rules |
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| Alternatively, instead of using quilt directly, you can drop the patch in to |
| debian/patches and add the name of the patch to debian/patches/series. |
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| The X Strike Force team maintains X packages in git repositories on |
| git.debian.org in the pkg-xorg subdirectory. Most upstream packages |
| are actually maintained in git repositories as well, so they often |
| just need to be pulled into git.debian.org in a "upstream-*" branch. |
| |
| The .orig.tar.gz upstream source file could be generated this |
| "upstream-*" branch in the Debian git repository but it is actually |
| generated from upstream tarballs directly. |
| Upstream ships Mesa as 3 different tarballs (MesaLib, MesaGLUT and |
| MesaDemos) which are re-bundled together into a single .orig.tar.gz. |
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| The Debian packaging is added by creating the "debian-*" git branch |
| which contains the aforementioned "upstream-*" branch plus the debian/ |
| repository files. |
| When a patch has to be applied to the Debian package, two solutions |
| are involved: |
| * If the patch is available in one of the upstream branches, it |
| may be git'cherry-picked into the Debian repository. In this |
| case, it appears directly in the .diff.gz. |
| * Otherwise, the patch is added to debian/patches/ which is managed |
| with quilt as documented in /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source. |
| Thus, the patching system requires a build dependency on quilt. |
