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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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Maintainer: Martin Quinson <mquinson@debian.org>
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Build-Depends: @cdbs@, gettext
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Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0
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Depends: patch, diffstat, bzip2, gettext, gawk, ${shlibs:Depends}
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Description: Tool to work with series of patches
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Quilt manages a series of patches by keeping track of the changes
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each of them makes. They are logically organized as a stack, and you can
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apply, un-apply, refresh them easily by traveling into the stack (push/pop).
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Quilt is good for managing additional patches applied to a package received
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as a tarball or maintained in another version control system. The stacked
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organization proved to be efficient for the management of very large patch
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sets (more than hundred patches). As matter of fact, it was designed by and
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for linux kernel hackers (Andrew Morton, from the -mm branch, is the
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original author), and its main use by the current upstream maintainer is to
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manage the (hundreds of) patches against the kernel made for the SUSE
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This package completely integrates into the CDBS, allowing maintainers
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using this new paradigm for their packaging script to benefit of the quilt
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comfort when editing their diff against upstream. The package also provide
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some basic support for the fool not using CDBS (yet).
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http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt is the current best approximation
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of an upstream homepage.