This is the standard Debian patch management system. Useful in source packages and in local changes.
Jari sdesc: "Patch maintenance system for source packages" ldesc: "An easy to use patch system for packages, It lets you store patches and other simple customization templates in debian/patches and otherwise does not require much reorganization of your source tree. To get the patches applied at build time you simply need to include a makefile snippet and then depend on the patch/unpatch target in the build or clean stage of debian/rules - or you can use the dpatch patching script directly." category: Devel requires: cygwin a) manual download wget \ http://cygwin.cante.net/dpatch/dpatch-2.0.26-1.tar.bz2 \ http://cygwin.cante.net/dpatch/dpatch-2.0.26-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://cygwin.cante.net/dpatch/setup.hint b) or use automatic version (get.sh will display further help) gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 955A92D8 mkdir dpatch ; cd dpatch rm -f get.sh get.sh.sig wget http://cygwin.cante.net/dpatch/get.sh \ http://cygwin.cante.net/dpatch/get.sh.sig gpg --verify get.sh.sig get.sh && sh get.sh