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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index deb6224..d369af1 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -11,15 +11,24 @@ Package: quilt Architecture: any Depends: patch, diffstat, bzip2, gettext, gawk Suggests: ccache -Description: Scripts for working with series of patches - The scripts allow to manage a series of patches by keeping track of the - changes each patch makes. Patches can be applied, un-applied, refreshed, - etc. The key philosophical concept is that your primary output is patches. - Not ".c" files, not ".h" files. But patches. So patches are the - first-class object here. +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). . - This package also provide some basic support to build debian package and - handling the diffs with quilt. - . - These scripts are based on Andrew Morton's patch scripts posted a while ago - on the linux-kernel mailing-list, but were heavily modified since then. + 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. + . + 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). + . + http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt is the current best approximation + of an upstream homepage. |