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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
-
-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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-Guide To The X Strike Force Packages
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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.
-Otherwise, the upstream sources are manually installed in the Debian
-git repository.
-
-The .orig.tar.gz upstream source file could be generated using this
-"upstream-*" branch in the Debian git repository but it is actually
-copied from upstream tarballs directly.
-
-Due to X.org being highly modular, packaging all X.org applications
-as their own independent packages would have created too many Debian
-packages. For this reason, some X.org applications have been grouped
-into larger packages: xutils, xutils-dev, x11-apps, x11-session-utils,
-x11-utils, x11-xfs-utils, x11-xkb-utils, x11-xserver-utils.
-Most packages, including the X.org server itself and all libraries
-and drivers are, however maintained independently.
-
-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.