I'm looking for advice/experience if you can help: We have a patch to ispell, submitted to one of the open bugs, which upstream maintainer has decided isn't important enough to incorporate into the upstream versions -- but is (apparently) needed for non-i386 (Alpha, at least) compatibility in Debian.
So I think I'll create a source patch file and add a rule to debian/rules to apply it for each build. The alternative, of course, would be to just apply the patch once to the working source tree, and let the .deb system handle it. I think I like the separate patch file better, though, because it'll be easier to keep this patch separate from other patches made for other purposes, when migrating to newer releases of upstream source. Is that wrong? If not, do we have a standard or common way of naming such patch files? Thanks.
