On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:43:24AM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> I wasn't suggesting modifying the upstream tarball.

Yep, you do so.  Please, just take look first on the package.

> What I was suggesting was: start from an unpacked copy of the source
> package (e.g. after "dpkg-source -x"); modify the affected source
> files; rebuild the package.  The changes will end up in the
> .diff.gz.

The "affected source files" in *orig.tar.gz is just memcached-1.0.2.tgz.

> As an example, see 
> http://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable_diffs/pyspf_2.0.5-2+squeeze1.debdiff
> , which is the result of comparing two versions of the package where
> the new version was created by modifying the source files.

Thus, it seems to be impossible for *this* particular case.


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