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Cyber1000
March 15th, 2011, 10:53 PM
Hi all!
Some package maintainers around?
I've read through https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete, all in all the most is clear to me, though some practise is needed.

Let's say I have a package unison (apt-get source unison), I want to update (uupdate ../unison_2.40.61.org.tar.gz), in the old debian-dir there are some patches (dpatch), the new sources can't use these patches cause the relevant source-files changed.

Question: Is there a fast way to update the old patches to new patches, or do I have to look through the old patches manually and make the new patches on my own?
I've searched the internet, but either I used the wrong keywords or there is no easy solution.

Hope somebody can help me,
thanks Cyber1000