Patch systems in packages

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 16:34 -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> 
> I have to disagree.  If you are applying patches you must use a patch 
> system to comply with the debian packaging guidelines ( otherwise you 
> modify the .orig.tar.gz and you shouldn't be doing that ).

Where did this meme turn up? As Lars says, the packaging toolchain
happily supports changes of most sorts anywhere in the cleaned source
tree and will happily detect and place in the debian diff changes
outside of debian.

-Rob
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