Re: [Quilt-dev] Applying local patches for new upstream releases

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Ferran, Andreas,

> > I don't know how to deal graciously with their upstream releases, as when
> > I untar them, they produce, as customary, a new directory.  How do I get
> > my, say, 0.7.0 patches and apply them to my 0.7.1?
>
> Create a copy of thirdparty-0.7.0/patches in thirdparty-0.7.1/, and apply the
> patches with quilt push. Don't copy the .pc directory.

I would add that some of the patches may no more apply if they have been
merged upstream. "quilt push" will fail on most of these, and you can
use "quilt delete -rn" to delete them and skip to the next one.

--
Jean Delvare