Best Lucid Feature: edit-patch

Did you ever have to deal with source packages and found the variety of patch systems simply mind-boggling? I certainly have.

Enter: the unstoppable Michael Vogt.

If you are running lucid and don’t have ubuntu-dev-tools installed, install it now. Forget about all the crazy stuff and incantations you might need for random patch system X, Y or Z (it supports cdbs, dpatch and quilt at the moment), just type:

edit-patch <name-of-patch>

and it will do the rest for you, even remind you do make use of the patch tagging guidelines.

Michael simply rocks! Give him a hug and if you find bugs in edit-patch, file them.

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6 Responses to Best Lucid Feature: edit-patch

  1. Benjamin says:

    Great. We discussed exactly this feature on one bug jam and came to the conclusion that it would be nice to have it. ;)

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  3. foo says:

    How about forwarding this to the Debian devscripts package and keep ubuntu-dev-tools for Ubuntu-specific stuff?

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