[TriLUG] best practice? maintaining a one-off Debian 3.0 package

[Michael Alan Dorman]

James Manning <jmm at sublogic.com> writes:
> Pretty simple - I wanna build a package that's out of Debian 3.0,
> but with a small patch applied (not yet ready for sending upstream).
> Anyone got recommended links or docs on the subject?
> 
> Whatever involves the least amount of pain would be best - I don't
> hope to do this build much, as I'm hoping it'll prove to be valuable
> to go upstream soonish :)

dpkg-source -x woody-source.dsc
cd woody-source-1.0
patch -p1 < ../some_wierd_patch
emacs debian/changelog
debuild -us -uc

For more documentation, you should be able to get away with grovelling
through manpages and/or checking out the developers corner on the web
site.

Mike.