> I can see where a patch.diff might come in. It may not always be the > result of a DD not cleaning out the debian/ directory before building. > It may even be an essential part of the build process.
Yes, but probably with a more suitable name.. (note that I checked the patch.diff itself, and it was a patch against debian/postinst; I should have mentioned that) > Sometimes it's a good idea to have separated patch diffs around, rather > than applying them en masse to the source code (except at build time to > a copy of the source, usually generated by "cp -l"). This can make > handling complex packages much easier. Yes. I've done that a few times, and prefer patching the sources at build time, instead of having all the patches mixed in the .diff.gz. > Me? I leave the dh_make comments in for the next poor soul who may have > to mangle my packages, or for if I have to modify the build script in > the future to use one of the unused targets. Why not change them to something more appropriate then? Which wouldn't say what to add below a comment, but would describe what the following block is doing. IMO, that is far more useful when you give the package to someone else.
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