Generic procedure to add patches to existing packages.

[Fathi Boudra]

> > 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.

The patch size difference depends on the automake used.
Using automake1.10, the size of the patch is around 2Mb like previously.
Using automake1.9 produces lots of garbage.
Probably caused by KDE 3.5.8 upstream tarballs uses automake1.10.

> > for kdebase, I have the same crappy  stamp-patch* and patches/*.log.

the problem is here:

Trying reverse patch debian/patches/70_kdm_consolekit.diff at level 1 ... 
0 ... 2 ... failure.
make[1]: *** [reverse-patches] Error 1

after the make -f admin/Makefile.common dist, we call
debian/rules clean -> debian/rules reverse-config

and we fail to reverse patches.

I continue to investigate...

cheers,

Fathi