How to cope with patches sanely

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> [2008.03.01.1650 +0100]:
> It does, if you ship the sources with the series applied.  AFAICT, this
> is not what's usually done.

... or if the patches were automatically applied when the source is
unpacked, which is where I think we're heading.

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