[ubuntu-x] Patch for some of the i845 freezes

[Geir Ove Myhr]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Geir Ove Myhr wrote:
>>  I wasn't familiar enough
>> with quilt to put a patch in debian/patches, but the diff is:
> Actually, there's no magic to using quilt.  Basically you just copy the
> patch into debian/patches/ and append the filename to the end of the
> series file.
>
> There's probably fancy quilt tools, but 99% of the time the above is all
> you have to do, particularly for packages like -intel that tend to have
> relatively few patches.

I have used quilt like this before. In this case however, it was
easier to edit the file by hand, since I had to change a few things
and it was easier to do it in context. I thought there was some quilt
magic way to extract the patch to debian/patches after editing.
Something like
$ quilt start editing
... edit the files
$ quilt extract patch patchname

The other context where I have had to dive into how quilt works was
when trying to patch the xorg-edgers xserver-xorg-video-intel. In that
case the patches in debian/patches were already applied, so the
patches in debian/patches (pre-existing and the one I added) would not
be applied at build time. This is a while ago, so it may have changed
now.

Geir Ove