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diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8113047 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/control.in @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- + +Source: quilt +Section: devel +Priority: optional +Maintainer: Martin Quinson <mquinson@debian.org> +Build-Depends: @cdbs@, gettext +Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0 + +Package: quilt +Architecture: any +Depends: patch, diffstat, bzip2, gettext, gawk, ${shlibs:Depends} +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). + . + Quilt is good for managing additional patches applied 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 (hundreds of) 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. |