How to cope with patches sanely

[Guillem Jover]

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 09:08:23 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:46:03 -0500, David Nusinow <dnusinow at speakeasy.net> said: 
> > This argument assumes that dpkg-source -x will apply that patch stack
> > automatically as well, which has been discussed elsewhere.
> 
>         Currently vapourware, no?

I want to clarify this, as I've seen it mentioned several times on this
thread. dpkg-source supports extracting Wig&Pen since etch. The missing
bit is source package generation (I posted a proof of concept script to
convert quilted source packages to debian-dpkg [0]).

regards,
guillem

[0] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2008/02/msg00079.html>