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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
Source: quilt
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Martin Quinson <martin.quinson@ens-lyon.fr>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.0), cdbs, gettext
Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0
Package: quilt
Architecture: any
Depends: patch, diffstat, bzip2, gettext, gawk
Suggests: ccache
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Quilt manages a series of patches by keeping track of the changes
each of them makes. They are logically organized as a stack, and you can
apply, un-apply, refresh them easily by traveling into the stack (push/pop).
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Quilt is good for managing additional packages applied to to a package
received as a tarball or maintained in another version control system. The
stacked organization proved to be efficient for the management of very
large patch sets (more than hundred patches). As matter of fact, it was
designed by and for linux kernel hackers (Andrew Morton, from the -mm
branch, is the original author), and its main use by the current upstream
maintainer is to manage the patches against the kernel made for the Suse
distribution.
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This package completely integrates into the CDBS, allowing maintainers
using this new paradigm for their packaging script to benefit of the quilt
comfort when editing their diff against upstream. The package also provide
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
of an upstream homepage.
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