[Pkg-octave-devel] Filing ITPs for the octave-forge pkgs

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-02-28 16:27]:

> So re-taring should do it?

Yes, this is what octave-pkg-ver does.
 
> Okay, I'm looking into it, but how do we apply patches to such a
> package?

There are many packages in Debian that have a tarball inside the
orig.tar.gz.  Unfortunately I cannot find an exemple right now (will try
later this evening).

I guess that there are tools in Dbeian for coping with this problem (maybe
quilt or even cdbs).

-- 
Rafael