Karl Goetz wrote: > 9wm's Debian package has no patches/ directory, which AIUI means > there is no changes to the package from upstream.
Not at all. It is not a requirement to have the patches separated in debian/patches; in fact some maintainers prefer direct changes to the upstream source (sorted out in the VCS with topic branches, usually). $ filterdiff -z -x '*/debian/*' 9wm_1.2-8.diff.gz | diffstat client.c | 2 ++ error.c | 1 + event.c | 3 ++- fns.h | 4 ++-- main.c | 1 + manage.c | 10 +++++----- menu.c | 6 ++++-- 7 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) The package in DeltaH indeed has changes (the version in Debian sid as well).