Hi,
I so far only have basic packaging experience and would be really happy
for any pointers in the right direction.
Problem (concrete example for simplicity, general topic):
- This is about perl software, i.e. interpreted script files.
- I want to update rt5-extension-resetpassword
- Upstream introduces a patch to rt5 core packaged in request-tracker-5
- Base package is dependency of extension package
What would be the cleanest way to package the new version with the
mentioned patch? I think I only need pointers on what direction to take
and maybe a pointer to the docs. I am more interested in the general
approach to this kind of problem, but the example is the issue at hand.
Ideas so far:
- Package scripts for patch and patch -R
- Including the affected files in the extension package and overriding
the ones in the dependency
- Somehow integrate the functionality into the base package, that is
only used by this extension.
Thanks in advance for any hint
Tobias
