[Bug 620721] Re: [edit-patch] should take -p and -P options

[Benjamin Drung]

** Package changed: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu) => devscripts (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  [edit-patch] should take -p and -P options

Status in “devscripts” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

  I wrote up this page to describe one way to turn a Bazaar loom thread
  into a patch system patch:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment/Documentation/PatchSystem

  It would be nice to be able to use edit-patch instead of quilt
  directly, but you also want edit-patch to accept the diff on stdin.
  To make this work correctly, at least with quilt, you'd need edit-
  patch to also supply quilt import's -P option to properly name the
  patch file it read from stdin.

  Also, because bzr diff's default is -p0 but quilt import's default is
  -p1, you'd need edit-patch to accept quilt import's -p option to set
  the proper prefix level.