[nzlug] Modifying DEB packages

[Craig Box]

> I have found this info about debian/patches as well but no
> debian/patches in openssl source package. OTOH in git-core package
> it's called debian/diffs and that one doesn't use dpatch at all.
> Looks like each package does it their very own semi-manual way :-/   
> 
> There is a pretty big monolithic diff.gz that comes with openssl - I
> just wonder how could they maintain it without knowing exactly what's
> there and what parts of the patch logically belong together...  

The diff.gz generally contains the debian/ directory, which isn't in the
upstream source.  openssl's diff.gz also contains lots of changes to the
main source, which isn't really the best package ever.  Can't guarantee the
output of volunteers, etc!

Craig