Greetings, I've tried merging this patch to submit an NMU.
This fails miserably because the existing patches are not applied in a known order and dpkg complains loudly that patches are either fuzzy or cannot be applied as-is. To guarantee that patches are always applied in the same order, their filename would need to start with a number e.g. 001_fix_for_foo.patch, 002_fix_for_bar.patch and the patches would probably need to be refreshed anyhow. Basically, unless someone is willing to overhaul Phatch's packaging ASAP, it's quite likely to get removed from the Debian archive before the Release. Best Regards, Martin-Éric