debian/patches separation

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:23:48PM +0700, Maia Kozheva wrote:
> Yesterday, when adding a patch to qutecom to fix FTBFS with GCC 4.4, I noticed
> that the debian/patches directory for that package was split into three
> subdirectories. To quote its README:
> 
> > generic: Possibly relevant for upstream adoption.
> > head: Grabbed from upstream development.
> > debian: Only relevant for official Debian release.
> 
> Are there any other packages using this kind of separation?

glibc uses something like this. I think it's probably only worth it for
packages with a large number of patches; otherwise they can simply be
organised by patch name.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]