On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 06:12:28PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> You wrote:
> 
> > I have just done an NMU of xine-lib: to fix two issues causing an FTBFS and
> > for which the bugs are opened for some time. Please find the diff below.
> 
> I don't know quite how to commit this without a rebuild of the package from
> the repository producing something different... debian/patches is generated
> when the source package is built, and that patch adds one file and alters
> another in that directory.

I don't really understand the problem. dpkg is able to cope with
multiple patches in debian/patches, actually it has been designed for
that. Rebuilding the package from source doesn't change anything in 
debian/patches/* .

> Either we find some way to deal with that or I'm going to have to pretend
> that this NMU never happened. The best that I can think of is to directly
> apply the patch file and leave debian/patches empty.
> 

I am fine with either options, as long as the bugs are not reintroduced.

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