Bug#845659: debpatch: New script, "Apply a debdiff to a Debian source package"

[Sean Whitton]

Hello Ximin,

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 04:18:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> > - debpatch: Apply unified diffs of two Debian source packages, such as those
> >   generated by debdiff, to a target Debian source package. Any changes to
> >   debian/changelog are dealt with specially, to avoid the conflicts that
> >   changelog diffs typically produce when applied naively. May be used to check
> >   that old patches still apply to newer versions of those packages.
> >   [python3-unidiff, quilt]

Have you considered using dpkg-mergechangelogs for this, rather than
writing yet another changelog merging function?

> I would also be happy to merge this myself (I have the access) but I
> thought it would be good to ask for a review first, since I haven't
> contributed to this repo before.

You don't need to add all the text to d/copyright: there is a line
beginning "- debsnap, ..." that you can append to.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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