Generic procedure to add patches to existing packages.

[Fathi Boudra]

Hi Raúl,

>   I then unpacked the source package available in Debian using dpkg-source
> -x and did create-buildprep kdebase-3.5.8.dfsg.1.

this is correct.

> After this I have a lot of stamp-patch* files in the debian dir and some
> more *.log in the debian/patches. The 98_buildlog.diff file takes about
> 15MB which seemed a lot.

I can reproduce the issue.
Something goes wrong or changed with the create-buildprep script.

for kdelibs, it seems fine compared to kdebase, but the patch is x3 larger.
previous size was around 2 Mb and an updated patch is now around 6 Mb.

for kdebase, I have the same crappy  stamp-patch* and patches/*.log.
the patch is x2.5 larger, passed from 7.5 Mb to 17.5 Mb.

I use automake1.9 and same behavior under i386 or amd64.

my 2c. atm.

cheers,

Fathi