Am 21.05.2015 um 16:37 schrieb Anto:
>> [...]
> Yes, I saw that quilt is always mentioned on Debian documentation
> for packaging but I don't see the advantage of using it. So I have
> never started to set it up just for the purpose of generating the
> patch containing the changes on a few files. I think git has more
> advantages and it is more relevant to Devuan gitlab so I will learn
> more about it.


Hi Anto,

IMHO, knowing how to identify and work with existing packages that
use quilt still is neccessary, for example to not break with the
existing conventions of maintenance of such a package, and of course
for taking countermeasures against unwelcome patches ... ;-)

Getting quilt to work the Debian way is not difficult and well
explained here:

https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuilt#Using_quilt_with_Debian_source_packages

The section "Basic quilt tasks" covers the activities of creating
new patches on top of an existing series of patches, and applying,
unapplying and modifying them.

Additionally, there's the activity of deleting an existing patch
which can be accomplished with "quilt delete". IIRC, without the
-r flag to "quilt delete", the patch is disabled, with the flag set
it's physically deleted.

Technically there's not much more to it.

Kind regards,
t.