Re: [Quilt-dev] Applying local patches for new upstream releases

[Ferran Jorba]

Andreas, Jean,

> > > I don't know how to deal graciously with their upstream releases, as when
> > > I untar them, they produce, as customary, a new directory.  How do I get
> > > my, say, 0.7.0 patches and apply them to my 0.7.1?
> >
> > Create a copy of thirdparty-0.7.0/patches in thirdparty-0.7.1/, and apply the
> > patches with quilt push. Don't copy the .pc directory.

I didn't realise that it was so easy: I was looking at the documentation for
0.39; now I've upgraded to 0.42 and I see a mention in section 5.4 of the
documentatio.  But, as Debian description for quilt says,

 Quilt is good for managing additional patches applied to a package
 received as a tarball or maintained in another version control system.

5.4 section only mentions this in-place (like an cvs update), but nothing
about those 'tarballs'.  I'd say that it would be worthwhile to explain it.
It is not obvious for newcomers.

> I would add that some of the patches may no more apply if they have been
> merged upstream. "quilt push" will fail on most of these, and you can
> use "quilt delete -rn" to delete them and skip to the next one.

Thanks.  This could also go to 5.4 documentation.

Thanks to all,

Ferran