patches

[Jonathan Riddell]

Writing the packaging guide chapter on patching highlighted for me
that patches don't always work well with UDD.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-packaging-guide-team/ubuntu-packaging-guide/trunk/view/head:/patches-to-packages.rst

(line 90) What are people's favourite tactics for the .pc directory when adding
a new patch?  I recommeded just bzr add .pc/* but Barry says he will
revert changes.

(line 103) Upgrading to New Upstream Versions is ugly with patches
(and that means most packages), you have to unapply all the patches,
commit with them unapplied then do the upgrade.  I think it would be
nicer if bzr merge-upstream did the unapply for you and if it didn't
need a commit. I filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-builddeb/+bug/815854

Jonathan